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Physic for Horses

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and syrup work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 950 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Physic for Horses

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine Barbadoes aloes, powdered ginger, and oil of aniseseed in a bowl.

  2. Add syrup gradually until the mixture is moldable.

  3. Form the mixture into 6 balls.

  4. Each ball is a single dose.

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. Ginger + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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