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Camphor Ice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Camphor and lavender work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 44 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Camphor Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the white wax and spermaceti together.

  2. Dissolve the camphor in the oil of sweet almonds.

  3. Mix the dissolved camphor with the melted wax.

  4. Finally, add the oil of lavender and stir well.

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. Camphor + lavendertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Almond + camphortop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + lavendertop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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