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Any Other Vijjegar

A vinegar infused with chilis, tarragon, or other condiments.

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 ↓

Any Other Vijjegar

Ingredients

Directions

Make the vinegar

  1. Add the chilis or tarragon to the vinegar.

  2. Bottle and cork the mixture tightly.

Infuse and finish

  1. Let it sit for four weeks.

  2. Strain the mixture and refill the bottle with the clear vinegar.

  3. Cork the bottle again; it is now ready 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 + 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 or tarragon
Provide the main flavor, with chilis adding heat and tarragon adding herbal aroma.

The step that matters

Corking the bottle tightly. A tight seal keeps air and contaminants out during the long four-week infusion, and helps preserve the vinegar's aroma and flavor. Loose closure can let the vinegar weaken or spoil.

“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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