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Lavender Water

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Lavender Water

Why it works: Spirit and wine work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 701 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Lavender Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the rectified spirit of wine, oil of lavender, essence of ambergris, and musk in a large bottle.

  2. Cork the bottle tightly.

  3. Shake the bottle well every day for two to three weeks.

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. Spirit + winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together701 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Spirit + lavendertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Wine + lavendertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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