Why it works: Honey and white currant work together. They rank in the top 49% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓
Admirable Receipt for Making Reel and White Mead or Metheglin with Raspberries and Currants
Ingredients
Directions
For every gallon of wine, mix honey with enough water to combine with the fruit juice.
Add tartar to the mixture.
Use white argol and white currants for white wine, or red argol with red currants or raspberries for red wine.
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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Honey + white curranttop 49% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together0 recipes
Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
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