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Cold Cream

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Cold Cream

Why it works: Almond and rose are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,465 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Cold Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the sweet almond oil, spermaceti, and white wax together.

  2. When the mixture begins to cool, add the rose or orange flower water and neroli oil.

  3. Beat the mixture until it is cold.

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. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Rose + neroli oiltop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Almond + neroli oiltop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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