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Broth for Weakness

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and chervil work together. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Broth for Weakness

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the mutton and chervil in 2 quarts of water until reduced to 1 quart.

  2. Skim the broth well.

  3. Take ½ pint three times a day.

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. Mutton + cherviltop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

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