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Oatmeal Soap

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,655 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Oatmeal Soap

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shave the Castile soap and place it in a tin pail on the stove.

  2. Barely cover the soap with water and simmer gently until dissolved.

  3. Stir in the sweet almond oil, powdered borax, tincture benzoin, and lemon juice.

  4. Beat the mixture well, then remove it from the stove.

  5. As it cools, spoon it into fine oatmeal and shape into cakes with your hands.

  6. Allow the cakes to dry; they improve with age.

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. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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