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Other Vinegae

A vinegar infused with chilis or tarragon, steeped for four weeks and then clarified.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and tarragon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,547 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Other Vinegae

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add the chilis or tarragon to the vinegar.

  2. Bottle and cork it tightly.

  3. Let it sit for four weeks.

  4. Strain the mixture.

  5. Refill the bottle with the clear vinegar and cork it again.

  6. It is now ready for use; the chilis can be reused.

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 + tarragontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Vinegar
Acts as the liquid base that extracts and carries the flavor of the added ingredients.
Chilis
Infuse heat and aroma into the vinegar over the resting period.
Tarragon
Infuses a distinctive herbal aroma into the vinegar over the resting period.

The step that matters

Let it sit for four weeks. Flavor only transfers from the solids into the vinegar slowly, so the full resting time is needed for a well-developed infusion. Stopping early yields a weak, underflavored vinegar.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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