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Camphoe Ice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Camphor and almond work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Camphoe Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the lard, spermaceti, camphor, almond oil, and white wax together.

  2. Pour the melted mixture into molds.

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. Camphor + almondtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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