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Fruchtsäuerlich · kernig · mandelig · marmeladig · weinig

Sauerkirsche

Zu sauer für den Baum, deshalb kocht jede Kultur, die sie anbaut, auch Gläser damit ein.

on its own
4.0sour
2.0sweet
0.0savoury
1.0bitter
0.0umami
order · canon first

2 of these 25 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

25 pairings for Sauerkirsche.

Ente

common

Acid strips rendered fat off the palate faster than any wine reduction.

Vanille

common

Vanillin rounds the sharp edge without adding the sugar that would flatten it.

Zimt

common

Cinnamaldehyde reads as sweetness, so you can pull sugar out of the pot.

Rotwein

common

Same acid, same tannin. Poach in it and nobody can find the seam.

Zucker

common

The acid is the flavour; sugar only makes it survivable in quantity.

Gelatine

common

Acid weakens the set, so lean sweet and add a leaf more than the chart says.

Piperine gives a one-note sour something warm to land against.

Gans

uncommon

Acid with a stone-fruit almond edge, which the gamey meat picks up.

Mohn

uncommon

Sharp fruit through grey paste — the acid is what stops it reading as mud.

Rose

uncommon

Sharp red fruit gives the flower the acid it lacks and hides the soap risk.

Coumarin and cherry kernel sit on the same almond-hay note, an octave apart.

Barnyard lactic against fruit acid; the cheese supplies the salt the fruit lacks.

Benzaldehyde and carvone share a lane; the sourness keeps it savoury.

Balkan move: sugar and acid arriving in the same fruit.

Mostarda logic: acid fruit against tallow, sourness doing the cutting.

Bulgur

rare

Anatolian pilaf move. The fruit acid replaces the lemon and adds tannin.

Anatolia bakes them together: kernel benzaldehyde meets resin, held by acid.

Rauch

wild

Phenols and stone-fruit acid: cold-smoke the compote and it reads as bourbon.

Geosmin under sharp red fruit. The earth stops the acid from being the only idea.