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Cream of Vanilla

A vanilla-flavored spirit and syrup mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Spirit and wine work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 701 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Cream of Vanilla

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 1 quart of spirits of wine into a container.

  2. Add 12 drops of tincture of vanilla and shake well.

  3. Mix in 1 quart of syrup and let it stand for 10 minutes.

  4. Filter the mixture twice or thrice if necessary.

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. Spirit + winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together701 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Vanilla + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Spirit + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Spirit + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Wine + vanillatop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Spirits of wine
Alcohol base that dissolves and carries the vanilla flavour.
Tincture of vanilla
Concentrated vanilla extract that gives the cream its aroma and flavour.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and body to balance the strong alcohol.

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spirit, wine, syrup):

  1. Applefits about as well
  2. Vanillathe original
  3. Orangefits about as well
  4. Apricotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against spirit, wine, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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