Name: Tea Leaves for Burns
Ingredients: tea leaves; wheat flour

Why it works: Wheat and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,373 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Tea Leaves for Burns

Ingredients

tea leaves
wheat flour

Directions

Steep tea leaves in hot water and let them cool.
Place the cooled tea leaves on the burn to relieve pain and inflammation.
If the burn breaks the skin, apply a dry coat of wheat flour as the best treatment.

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.

Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Tea + wheattop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Tea + flourtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together449 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).