Name: Lemon Peel
Ingredients: lemon peel; brandy

Why it works: Lemon and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,351 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Lemon Peel

Ingredients

lemon peel
brandy

Directions

Keep a wide-mouthed bottle filled with brandy.
Add lemon peel to the bottle after using the juice.
Use 1 teaspoon of lemon peel for flavoring in cakes.

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.

Lemon + brandytop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,351 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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What each ingredient does

Lemon peel: Adds aromatic citrus oils that flavor the brandy and later the cakes.
Brandy: Acts as the liquid that steeps and preserves the lemon peel's flavor.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.