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Medicinal Tea

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry 1,8-cineol, which smells eucalyptus, camphor. The science ↓

Medicinal Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix all the dried herbs together in a bowl.

  2. Use ⅓ cup of the mixed herbs to make 8 pints of infusion.

  3. Boil water and steep the herbs in it like tea.

  4. Add sugar and milk to taste, if desired.

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. Rosemary + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1,8-cineol (eucalyptus, camphor).

  2. Peach + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Rosemary + rosetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together93 recipes

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

  4. Rose + peachtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together82 recipes

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

  5. Rosemary + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

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

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

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Peachthe original

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

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