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Scrofulous Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Dock and sugar work together. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Scrofulous Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bruise the Yellow-dock root and Bark of bittersweet root.

  2. Boil the bruised roots in water until the strength is obtained.

  3. Strain the mixture and boil it down to fill twelve porter bottles.

  4. Add enough sugar to prevent fermentation.

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. Dock + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19 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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