Why it works: Spirit and lavender work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
Lavender Water
Ingredients
Directions
Combine the spirit, essential oil of lavender, and essence of ambergris in a quart bottle.
Shake the bottle extremely well.
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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Spirit + lavendertop 14% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together122 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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What each ingredient does
- Spirit
- Acts as the solvent that carries the lavender and ambergris aromas, keeping the scent evenly dispersed.
- Essential oil of lavender
- Supplies the main floral aroma that defines the finished water.
- Essence of ambergris
- Adds a warm, lingering base note that rounds out the lavender scent.
The step that matters
Shake the bottle extremely well. Essential oils do not mix readily with alcohol-based spirits and tend to separate. Vigorous shaking disperses the oils into the spirit so the scent is consistent throughout the bottle.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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