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Galactagogue Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and cherry work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 339 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Galactagogue Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 8 fluid ounces of syrup of wild cherry with 2 fluid ounces of acid phosphate solution and 1 fluid ounce of citric acid.

  2. Add enough syrup to make a total of 1 gallon.

  3. Color to your preference using cochineal coloring or tincture of cudbear.

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. Syrup + cherrytop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together339 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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