Why it works: Fig and white wine work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
English Fig Wine
Ingredients
Directions
Gather ripe large blue figs and steep them in white wine.
Cut slits in the figs to help them absorb the wine.
Slice additional figs and simmer them in clear water until they become a pulp.
Strain the water from the pulp, then press the pulp hard.
Pour the hot pulp over the figs soaked in wine.
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.
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Fig + white winetop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together30 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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