Why it works: Coffee and rose work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 56 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Use strong brewed coffee instead of water to mix the paste.
Dampen the paste with rose water.
Add carmine lake for coloring.
For flavor, use tincture of Florence iris.
Add 2-3 teaspoons of tartaric acid to maintain the blue color.
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.
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Coffee + rosetop 31% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together56 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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