Why it works: Cottonseed and corn work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Cottonseed Meal for Poultry
Ingredients
Directions
Mix one part cottonseed meal with two parts of corn chops, corn meal, wheat bran, or small grain.
Feed the mixture to poultry either dry or wet into a thin dough.
Observe improvements in vigor, growth, plumage, and egg production.
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.
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Cottonseed + corntop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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