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Lavender Scent Bag

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,108 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Lavender Scent Bag

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients together well.

  2. Place the mixture into silk or cambric bags.

  3. Use the bags to perfume drawers and linen.

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. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Thyme + minttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together285 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Clove + carawaytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Thyme + carawaytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Mint + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together576 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the caraway

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

  1. Rosemaryfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Carawaythe original

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

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