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Mace Compound

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mace and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,315 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Mace Compound

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the mace in lemon juice for 8 hours.

  2. Add boiling water to the mixture.

  3. Scald the mixture for 20 minutes.

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. Mace + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,315 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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