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Cotjqh Syrup

Contains morphine, which should be used with caution.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cotjqh Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the wild cherry extract, white pine extract, cubeb extract, ipecac extract, ammonium, chloroform, and morphine acetate in a container.

  2. Add enough alcohol and water to make a total of 10 ounces. Shake well and let it stand for a few hours.

  3. Filter the mixture. In the filtrate, dissolve 8 ounces of sugar by stirring.

  4. Add glycerin and then make up the volume to 1 pint with simple syrup.

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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cherry + pinetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cherry + syruptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Cherry + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pine + syruptop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, sugar, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, sugar, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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