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Compote of Currants

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and syrup work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 329 recipes. The science ↓

Compote of Currants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Carefully pick the currants from the stalks without bruising them.

  2. Drop the currants into hot syrup and simmer without boiling.

  3. Pour the mixture gently into a basin.

  4. Once cooled, shape the currants into an elevated cone in a serving dish.

  5. Pour the syrup around the base of the cone.

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. Currant + syruptop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together329 recipes

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