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Milk of Roses

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Milk of Roses

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 ↓

Milk of Roses

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the sweet almonds to a paste.

  2. Mix in the oil of lavender.

  3. Add the rose water 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. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lavender + rosetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  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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