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Superior Milk of Roses

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Rose and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,249 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Superior Milk of Roses

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil fresh rose leaves in asses milk.

  2. Bottle it for immediate use.

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. Rose + milktop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,249 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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