Why it works: Gin and vermouth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Dry Martini Cocktail
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a glass with cracked ice.
Add dry gin and French vermouth.
Stir well.
Strain into a serving glass.
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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Gin + vermouthtop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together94 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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What each ingredient does
- Dry gin
- Provides the spirit base and most of the drink's aroma and strength.
- French vermouth
- Adds herbal, slightly sweet aromatic notes that soften the gin's sharpness.
The step that matters
Stir well. Stirring chills and dilutes the drink with meltwater from the ice, which softens the alcohol's harshness. Stirring rather than shaking keeps the liquid clear and silky.
“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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