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Soothing Syrup for a Cough

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

Soothing Syrup for a Cough

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the oatmeal, egg yolk, and honey in a bowl.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the mixture, stirring continuously.

  3. Return the mixture to the pan and heat until nearly boiling.

  4. Strain the syrup before serving.

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. Egg + honeytop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,150 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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