Why it works: Mint and wine work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 442 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
Mint Julep, an American Receipt
Ingredients
Directions
Strip the tender leaves of mint into a tumbler.
Add your choice of wine, brandy, or other spirit to the mint.
In a second tumbler, put some pounded ice.
Pour the mixture from the first tumbler onto the ice in the second tumbler.
Continue to pour the mixture back and forth between the tumblers.
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.
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Mint + winetop 16% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together442 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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