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Fbaqbaiit Quince Cbbax

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Quince and lavender work together. They rank in the top 40% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3 recipes. Both carry alpha-terpineol, which smells lilac, floral. The science ↓

Fbaqbaiit Quince Cbbax

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the boric acid in 1 pint of water.

  2. Macreate the quince seed in the solution for 3 hours.

  3. Press through a straining cloth.

  4. Add the glycerin, carbolic acid, and glycerite, and mix well.

  5. Mix the alcohol, cologne water, and lavender oil.

  6. Add the mixture to the mucilage and mix thoroughly.

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. Quince + lavendertop 40% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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