Why it works: Caraway and turmeric share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 55 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
The Diuretic Drink
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the yellow resin, juniper berries, caraway seeds, saltpetre, and turmeric together.
Give the mixture in 3.5 pints of cold ale in the morning on an empty stomach.
Do not allow the horse to eat for two hours after administering the drink.
After two hours, provide the horse with cold water and regular feed.
The following day, allow the horse to drink as much water as it wants and walk it frequently.
Repeat this drink every third morning for three to four times.
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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Caraway + turmerictop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together55 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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