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Extract Op Cardamoms, Liquid, Compound

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cardamom and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,299 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Extract Op Cardamoms, Liquid, Compound

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the cardamom, cinnamon bark, and caraway seeds to a fine powder (No. 20).

  2. Moisten the powder with the rectified spirit.

  3. Pack the mixture tightly in a percolator.

  4. After 24 hours, pour on the distilled water.

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. Cardamom + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,299 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Cardamom + carawaytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cinnamon + carawaytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Cinnamon + spirittop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Caraway + spirittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the caraway

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

  1. Clovefits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Carawaythe original

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

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