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Conserve of Indian Turnip

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and honey work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 39 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Conserve of Indian Turnip

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grate the fresh Indian turnip root.

  2. Combine the grated root with honey or loaf sugar.

  3. Take one teaspoonful of the mixture three times a day.

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 + honeytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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