Why it works: Egg and honey are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,150 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Mead
Ingredients
Directions
Skim the mixture frequently.
Add 1 tablespoon of powdered gum arabic.
If preferred, you can use 1 egg white instead of gum arabic, but it does not keep as well.
Mix 1 gill of mead with 1 tumblerful of soda-water before serving.
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 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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Egg + honeytop 33% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together2,150 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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