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Soda Mint Mixture

A beverage made by mixing sodium bicarbonate, sugar, aromatic spirit of ammonia, and peppermint water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Spirit and peppermint work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 57 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Soda Mint Mixture

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the sodium bicarbonate and sugar.

  2. Add the aromatic spirit of ammonia and peppermint water.

  3. Stir well until all the ingredients are dissolved.

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. Spirit + pepperminttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Spirit + sugartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peppermint + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the sharp peppermint flavour.
Peppermint water
Provides the main liquid and the minty aroma and flavour.

Swap the peppermint

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Peppermintthe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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