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Jaundice Bitters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,832 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Jaundice Bitters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the barks of white wood, boxwood, dogwood, black cherry, and prickly ash in a large container.

  2. Add the horseradish root, mustard seed, and hops.

  3. Infuse all ingredients in one gallon of cider or equal parts of wine and water.

  4. Take a wine glassful 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. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cherry + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together304 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Mustard + cidertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,414 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Cherry + horseradishtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Cherry + cidertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

Swap the cherry

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

  1. Applefits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Cherrythe original

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

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