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French Milk of Roses

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and rose work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 93 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

French Milk of Roses

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the rosewater and rosemary water together.

  2. Add the tincture of storax, tincture of benzoin, and rose essence.

  3. Stir well to combine.

  4. Use as a wash for the complexion.

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. Rosemary + rosetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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