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Collecting and Preparing Grass Seeds

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grass and apple work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Collecting and Preparing Grass Seeds

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather the seeds from dewy grass at sunrise using a hair-sieve.

  2. Spread the seeds on a sheet and dry them in the sun for two weeks.

  3. Gently beat the dried seeds with a wooden pestle in a mortar, using straw to separate the chaff.

  4. Winnow the seeds to remove the chaff.

  5. Add dried marigold flowers, apple leaves, and hazel leaves to the seeds in the mortar.

  6. Pound the mixture until the seeds appear bright, then winnow again to clean them.

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. Grass + appletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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