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Admirable Receipt for Making Red and White Mead or Metheglin with Raspberries and Currants

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and currant work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 57 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Admirable Receipt for Making Red and White Mead or Metheglin with Raspberries and Currants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For every gallon of wine, mix 1½ pounds of honey with enough water to combine with the fruit juice.

  2. Use ½ ounce of tartar or Bologna argol.

  3. For white wine, use white argol with white currants; for red wine, use red argol with red currants or raspberries.

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. Honey + curranttop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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