Name: No. 79- Angelica Drops
Ingredients: 1 ounce angelica; 1 pound powdered sugar

Why it works: Angelica and sugar work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 487 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

No. 79- Angelica Drops

Ingredients

1 ounce angelica
1 pound powdered sugar

Directions

Prepare the angelica

Reduce the angelica to a fine powder using a mortar and a little powdered sugar.
Sift the mixture through a silk sieve.

Make the drops

Combine the powdered angelica with the sugar and form drops as directed.
Ensure cleanliness throughout the process.

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.

Explore the science

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 + sugartop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together487 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Angelica: Provides the characteristic aromatic flavour of the drops.
Powdered sugar: Sweetens the drops and gives them a fine, dry body that holds their shape.

“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.