Why it works: Pepper and camphor work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry piperonal, which smells bitter, coconut. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the rosin, Burgundy pitch, and beeswax slowly and carefully.
Add the red pepper, camphor, sweet oil, and oil of sassafras.
Stir all the ingredients well together.
Pour the mixture into a large tub of cold water.
Pull the mixture until it turns white.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Pepper + camphortop 19% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together36 recipes
Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).
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