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Cucumber Tinegar

A homemade cucumber vinegar made by steeping cucumbers in boiling vinegar with salt and peppercorns.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,734 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyl acetate, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Cucumber Tinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wipe and slice the cucumbers into a jar.

  2. Pour boiling vinegar over the cucumbers to cover them.

  3. Add salt and peppercorns.

Steep and bottle

  1. Seal the jar and let it sit for 1-2 months, protected from air.

  2. Strain and bottle the vinegar when ready.

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. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Cucumbers
Supply the fresh cucumber flavour and aroma that slowly move into the vinegar.
Vinegar
Provides acidity that carries the flavour and helps preserve the cucumbers.

The step that matters

Seal and steep for 1-2 months. Flavour compounds pass from the cucumbers into the vinegar slowly. Opening or bottling early leaves the vinegar thin and weakly flavoured, so the full steeping time matters.

“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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