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frutaagria · de carozo · almendrada · confitada · vinosa

Cereza ácida

Demasiado ácida para comer del árbol, por eso toda cultura que la cultiva también la pone en conserva.

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 Cereza ácida.

Pato

common

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

Vainilla

common

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

Canela

common

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

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

Azúcar

common

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

Gelatina

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.

Ganso

uncommon

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

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

Rosa

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.

Humo

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.