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Brandy Essence

A brandy infusion steeped with allspice, used to flavor dishes and preserve meats.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Brandy and allspice work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 931 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Brandy Essence

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Let the brandy steep for two weeks, shaking it occasionally.

  2. After two weeks, pour off the clear liquor.

  3. Use this essence to enhance dishes that require Allspice, such as Bishop, Mull Wine, gravies, or to flavor and preserve potted meats.

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. Brandy + allspicetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together931 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Brandy
Acts as the solvent that extracts the allspice flavour and carries it into the finished essence.
Allspice
Provides the warm, aromatic spice flavour that the essence is made to carry.

“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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