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Horse Condition Powder

Contains saltpetre, which may pose safety concerns.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Coriander and fenugreek match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Horse Condition Powder

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind all ingredients into a fine powder using a mortar.

  2. Mix well in a large mortar; sieving is not necessary if resin and saltpetre are finely powdered.

  3. Store in one-pound tins wrapped in blue paper, labeled 'horse condition powder'.

  4. For use, mix one or two tablespoons with the horse's food every night and morning for a week or two, then once 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. Coriander + fenugreektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Caraway + coriandertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Fenugreek + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Caraway + fenugreektop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Caraway + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (caraway, coriander, fenugreek):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against caraway, coriander, fenugreek. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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