Name: Cough Syrup, French
Ingredients: 2 ounces syrup of squills; 8 grains tartarized antimony; 5 grains sulphate of morphine; 2 drachms pulverized gum arabic; 1 ounce honey; 1 ounce water

Why it works: Syrup and honey work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 325 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cough Syrup, French

Ingredients

Directions

Mix all ingredients together.
For an adult, take 1 small teaspoonful.
Repeat in half an hour if no relief is felt.
Adjust dosage for children according to their age.

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.

Syrup + honeytop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together325 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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Cough Syrup, French