Why it works: Coriander and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,498 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Combine senna leaves, Glauber's salt, anise seed, coriander seed, chervil leaves, burnet leaves, and sliced lemon in an earthen bowl.
Add cold water and let the mixture macerate for 24 hours, stirring occasionally.
Strain the mixture through a towel with light pressure, then filter it.
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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Coriander + lemontop 2% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together2,498 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Anise + coriandertop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together86 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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Chervil + lemontop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together358 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Anise + lemontop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together91 recipes
Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
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Coriander + cherviltop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together34 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the chervil
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (anise, coriander, lemon):
- Cuminbetter flavor fit
- Dillbetter flavor fit
- Parsleybetter flavor fit
- Chervilthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against anise, coriander, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
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