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Turnip Syrup, for a Cold or Affection of the Lungs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,330 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Turnip Syrup, for a Cold or Affection of the Lungs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast the turnips in an apple-roaster until tender.

  2. Press the juice from the roasted turnips.

  3. Add sugar candy to the juice to taste.

  4. Take 1 teacup full at night and in the morning.

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. Turnip + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

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