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To Preserve Strawberries in Wine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and madeira wine work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 343 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Preserve Strawberries in Wine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the strawberries in a clean bottle.

  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the strawberries.

  3. Fill the bottle with Madeira wine or fine sherry.

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. Sugar + madeira winetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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