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Lavender Vinegar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and lavender work together. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Lavender Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a stone jar or bottle.

  2. Add ½ ounce of fresh lavender flowers to 1 pint of vinegar.

  3. Cover closely and set aside for 1-2 days.

  4. Place the jar or bottle on hot cinders for 8-10 hours.

  5. When cold, filter the mixture and bottle it for use.

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. Vinegar + lavendertop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

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