Why it works: Lemon and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,351 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓
Lemon Peel
Ingredients
Directions
Keep a wide-mouthed bottle for spare lemon peel.
Pour brandy over the lemon peel to cover it and cork the bottle.
Chop some spare lemon peel very fine and sprinkle with coarse sea salt for use in forcemeats or meat flavorings.
Dry some lemon peel in a cool oven and crumble or grate it for use in apple sauce and other dishes.
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.
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Lemon + brandytop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together5,351 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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