Why it works: Ginger and wheat work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 255 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Remedy for the Heaves in Horses
Ingredients
Directions
Mix 2 tablespoons of ginger with wheat bran.
Give this mixture to the horse twice a day: once in the morning and once in the evening.
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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Ginger + wheattop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together255 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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