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Mustard Poultice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and corn work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 463 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mustard Poultice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine mustard and corn meal in a bowl.

  2. Add warm water gradually until the mixture reaches a spreadable consistency.

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. Mustard + corntop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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