Name: Garlic, Honey, Sweet Oil and Laudanum
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves; ½ tablespoon honey; ½ tablespoon sweet oil; ½ tablespoon laudanum

Why it works: Garlic and clove are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Garlic, Honey, Sweet Oil and Laudanum

Ingredients

2 garlic cloves
½ tablespoon honey
½ tablespoon sweet oil
½ tablespoon laudanum

Directions

Roast the garlic cloves until soft.
Mash the garlic while hot.
Mix in honey, sweet oil, and laudanum.
Squeeze out the juice and drop a little into the ear as needed.

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.

Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Clove + honeytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together736 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Garlic + honeytop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,669 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).