Why it works: Cheese and lime work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 355 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
To Preserve Yest
Ingredients
Directions
Fill a thick canvas bag with yest and press it gently, as you would cheese.
Tie the bag and increase the weight until it becomes quite dry.
Pack it in small jars, cork them well, and wax the tops.
Immerse the jars in lime-water for preservation.
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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Cheese + limetop 25% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together355 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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