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Rosemary Bath Soap

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa butter and rosemary work together. They rank in the top 57% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Rosemary Bath Soap

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the cocoa butter and tallow together.

  2. Saponify by adding the soda lye solution.

  3. When nearly cold, add the oil of rosemary.

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. Cocoa butter + rosemarytop 57% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    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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