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Restorative Jelly

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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Barley and rose work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Restorative Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine pearl barley, conserve of roses, bruised isinglass, hartshorn shavings, and candied eringo-root in a pot.

  2. Add 3 pints of water and boil on low heat until reduced by one-third.

  3. Strain the mixture through a cloth and let it cool to form a jelly.

  4. Serve half a tea cupful three to four times a day with an equal amount of warm milk.

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. Barley + rosetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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