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Excellent Table Beer

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Malt and hops work together. They rank in the top 49% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Excellent Table Beer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour one-third of the hot water over the malt and let it sit for 30 minutes.

  2. Mash the mixture and let it stand for 2.5 hours.

  3. Drain the liquid into another container.

  4. Add half of the remaining water to the grains, mash, and let it sit for 30 minutes.

  5. Run this liquid into another tub and pour the rest of the water over the malt.

  6. Stir well, cover, and let it infuse for 1 hour.

  7. Combine all the liquids together.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Malt + hopstop 49% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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