Name: To Preserve Meat Without Salt
Ingredients: clean cloth; vinegar; meat

Why it works: Vinegar and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,428 recipes. Both carry 3-methylbutanol, which smells malty, whiskey. The science ↓

To Preserve Meat Without Salt

Ingredients

clean cloth
vinegar
meat

Directions

Wet a clean cloth in vinegar and wring it dry.
Wrap the meat in the cloth.
Hang it up in a dry, cool place.

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.

Vinegar + meattop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,428 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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To Preserve Meat Without Salt