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Yellow Dock

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Dock and dandelion share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Yellow Dock

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 2 ounces of fresh yellow dock root in 1 pint of water to make a decoction.

  2. Take 1 to 4 ounces of the decoction 3 to 4 times a day.

  3. Mix 1 ounce each of the fluid extracts of dandelion, yellow dock, burdock, and wild cherry.

  4. Take 1 to 4 teaspoons of this mixture 4 times a day.

  5. Bruise fresh yellow dock root and mix it with cream, lard, or fresh butter to create an ointment for ulcers and swellings.

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.

Explore the science

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. Dock + dandeliontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Dock + burdocktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Dandelion + burdocktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Dandelion + cherrytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Dandelion + creamtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

Swap the cherry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (dock, dandelion, burdock, cream):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Cherrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against dock, dandelion, burdock, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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