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Fine Lavender Water

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lavender and bergamot work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 82 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Fine Lavender Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients together in a container.

  2. Store in a demi-john for several days, shaking occasionally.

  3. Filter the mixture and bottle it.

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. Lavender + bergamottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Bergamot + spirittop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Lavender + spirittop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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