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Admirable Rose Water

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

Admirable Rose Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Distill water until you obtain 1 gallon of rose water.

  2. Change the recipient and continue distillation until no odor remains.

  3. Set aside the last liquor for future use.

  4. Mix ¼ pint of rectified spirit of wine with 4 drops of cedrati essence and 4-5 drops of amber essence.

  5. Combine this mixture with the gallon of rose water and distill again.

  6. Stir well and let it stand for 6 months.

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).

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