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Alum, Salt, Yellow Dock and Lemon Juice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Dock and lemon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Alum, Salt, Yellow Dock and Lemon Juice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Burn the alum and sprinkle the coarse sea salt over it.

  2. When cold, mix in the pulverized yellow dock root and rain water.

  3. Add the lemon juice and let it stand in the sun for 3-4 days, shaking occasionally.

  4. Apply to the gums with a cotton cloth 2-3 times a day.

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. Dock + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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