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Garlick Syrup, Good for Hooping, or Any Other Cough

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Garlick Syrup, Good for Hooping, or Any Other Cough

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the sliced garlic, honey, and vinegar in a bowl.

  2. Place the bowl in a larger bowl filled with hot water to create a double boiler.

  3. Let the mixture infuse for 30 minutes.

  4. Strain the syrup into a clean container.

  5. Take 1 teaspoon of the syrup mixed with an equal amount of brandy and water first thing in the morning and last at night.

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. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Honey + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Garlic + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Clove + brandytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,362 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Clove + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,386 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, honey, vinegar, brandy):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, honey, vinegar, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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