Why it works: Licorice and fennel work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
Licorice Drops
Ingredients
Directions
Cook a batch the same as for lemon drops.
Pour the mixture onto a slab.
Add menthol crystals and powdered licorice.
Knead the mixture and add oil of fennel.
When almost cool, run through rollers into desired shapes.
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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Licorice + fenneltop 31% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together5 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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