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Aromatic Vinegar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Bergamot and lavender work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 82 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Aromatic Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the oils, Benzoic Acid, and Camphor in the Spirit of Wine.

  2. Mix with the Glacial Acetic Acid.

  3. Shake until well combined.

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. Bergamot + lavendertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Clove + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together519 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Rosemary + winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together895 recipes

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

  5. Rosemary + lavendertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together115 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rosemary, bergamot, lavender, camphor, spirit, wine):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Clovethe original
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Sagefits about as well

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

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