Why it works: Carrot and cocoa butter work together. They rank in the top 64% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Carrot Puree
Ingredients
Directions
Scrub and peel the carrots, placing the peels in a stock pot for soup.
Boil the peeled carrots in just enough water to cover them, adding more water as it evaporates.
Once the carrots are soft, drain the water into the stock pot.
Mash the carrots through a wire sieve to create the puree.
To clarify cocoa butter, place it in a baking tin with a little water and melt it in the oven.
Pour the melted cocoa butter into a jar, discard the water after it cools.
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 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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Carrot + cocoa buttertop 64% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1 recipe
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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