Why it works: Coriander and mace work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 281 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
One ounce each of coriander seed, orris root, rose leaves, lavender flowers, and sweet calamus; one drachm of mace and allspice. Mix and put in your bags, or between the covers of your handkerchief-box lid.
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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. See the original page.
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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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Coriander + macetop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together281 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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