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Mint Julep

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mint and wine work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 442 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mint Julep

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Strip the tender leaves of mint into a tumbler.

  2. Add your desired amount of wine, brandy, or spirit to the mint.

  3. In a second tumbler, place some pounded ice.

  4. Pour the mint and spirit mixture over the ice.

  5. Continue pouring the mixture between the two tumblers until well mixed and flavored with mint.

  6. Place the glass in a larger glass filled with pounded ice.

  7. Remove it from the ice to see it covered in frost.

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. Mint + winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together442 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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