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Cleansing Beer

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Burdock and molasses work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cleansing Beer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine burdock, sarsaparilla, and spike-nard roots in a pot with 6 quarts of water.

  2. Boil the mixture until it reduces to 2 quarts.

  3. Strain the liquid and let it cool slightly.

  4. Add 1 pint of molasses (or ½ pound of sugar) and enough yeast to ferment.

  5. Once fermentation starts, drink freely until finished.

  6. Make a fresh batch daily until health improves.

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. Burdock + molassestop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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