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Poultice Made of White Bread and Saffron

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Saffron and rose work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Poultice Made of White Bread and Saffron

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the saffron in the milk.

  2. Soak the white bread in the saffron milk until soft.

  3. Mix well to achieve a soft consistency.

  4. Add rose oil and mix again before applying.

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. Saffron + rosetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Saffron + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Bread + saffrontop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Milk + rosetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,249 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the saffron

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, rose):

  1. Cinnamonfits about as well
  2. Saffronthe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits less well

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

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