Why it works: Saffron and egg work together. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 535 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Drink for Jaundice
Ingredients
Directions
Tie equal parts of soot and saffron in a cloth the size of half a hen's egg.
Soak the cloth in a glass of water overnight.
In the morning, beat the yolk of an egg and add it to the water.
Drink this mixture for three mornings, then skip three mornings, until you have taken nine doses.
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.
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Saffron + eggtop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together535 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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