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Hop 8tbup Fob a Cotoh

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flaxseed and molasses work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Hop 8tbup Fob a Cotoh

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine hops, water, and flaxseed.

  2. Boil until the mixture reduces to half.

  3. Strain the mixture.

  4. Add molasses or brown sugar and boil until it becomes a thick syrup.

  5. Let it cool and take 1 tablespoon at a time.

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. Flaxseed + molassestop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Hops + molassestop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes
  3. Hops + flaxseedtop 81% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the flaxseed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (hops, molasses):

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Flaxseedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against hops, molasses. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.