Name: Spirit of Angelica
Ingredients: 4 ounces of Angelica seeds; 7 pints of Brandy

Why it works: Angelica and brandy work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Spirit of Angelica

Ingredients

4 ounces of Angelica seeds
7 pints of Brandy

Directions

Infuse

Pound the Angelica seeds.
Infuse the seeds in the Brandy.
Let the mixture steep for 8 days.

Distill

Distill 3½ pints of the infused Brandy.

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.

Angelica + brandytop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together88 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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What each ingredient does

Angelica seeds: Provide the main aromatic flavour that is extracted into the brandy during steeping.
Brandy: Acts as the solvent that extracts aroma from the seeds and is later distilled.

“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.