Why it works: Sugar and lavender work together. They rank in the top 39% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 149 recipes. The science ↓
39 Lavender Lozenges
Ingredients
Directions
Mix powdered sugar, essence of oil of lavender, and drop lake with mucilage.
Avoid using dirty vessels to preserve color.
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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Sugar + lavendertop 39% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together149 recipes
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What each ingredient does
- Powdered sugar
- Provides sweetness and the bulk of the solid base that the lozenge holds its shape with.
- Essence of oil of lavender
- Gives the lozenges their characteristic aroma and flavor.
- Drop lake
- Supplies the colour of the lozenges.
- Mucilage
- Acts as a binder that holds the powdered sugar into a workable paste.
The step that matters
Avoid using dirty vessels to preserve color.. Residue from previous work can shift the colour of the mixture, so clean vessels help keep the lake pigment true to shade.
“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.
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