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A Dentifrice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Sage and honey work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 127 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the myrrh and sage in a bowl.

  2. Add the honey and stir until well combined.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sage + honeytop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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