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Mustard Plaster

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and rye share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mustard Plaster

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix mustard and flour thoroughly.

  2. Add cold water to make a soft mass.

  3. Spread the mixture on a piece of muslin.

  4. Cover the plaster with gauze to prevent sticking.

  5. For children, use 2 tablespoons mustard and 6 tablespoons flour.

  6. Check the skin every few minutes and remove if redness appears.

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 + ryetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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