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To Color Butter

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and carrot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,215 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

To Color Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grate the carrot.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the grated carrot.

  3. Let it stand until cool.

  4. Strain the liquid into the cream.

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. Cream + carrottop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,215 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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