Why it works: Mutton and camphor work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 37 recipes mention both. Both carry hexanal, which smells grass, green. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the mutton tallow in a small saucepan.
Add the camphor gum and stir until fully dissolved.
Pour the mixture into a small cup or mold.
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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Mutton + camphortop 20% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together37 recipes
Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, green).
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