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Rose Jar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Rose Jar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pluck rose leaves early in the morning.

  2. Combine rose leaves and an equal quantity of lavender blossoms in a large earthenware bowl.

  3. Add 1 pound of crushed orris root.

  4. For every 2 pounds of mixture, add 2 ounces each of bruised cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and coarse sea salt.

  5. Let the mixture stand for about 2 weeks, mixing it thoroughly with your hands every day.

  6. Once ready, use as desired or gift as pot-pourri.

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Rose + allspicetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  5. Rose + lavendertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rose, lavender, clove, cinnamon):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Allspicethe original
  3. Cardamomfits about as well
  4. Rosemaryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rose, lavender, clove, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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