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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Wine Sauce

Why it works: Butter and sherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,505 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Wine Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cream the butter in a bowl.

  2. Gradually add the sugar while mixing.

  3. Slowly incorporate the Madeira wine.

  4. Transfer to a glass dish and sprinkle with grated nutmeg.

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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Explore the science

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. Butter + sherrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Sherry + madeira winetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together133 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + nutmegtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Sherry + nutmegtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,246 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Madeira wine + nutmegtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together265 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sherry, madeira wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Nutmegthe original
  4. Clovefits about as well

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

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