Name: Conserve of Hedge Mustard, for the Cure of Asthma
Ingredients: equal quantities of hedge mustard leaves; virgin honey

Why it works: Hedge mustard and honey work together. They rank in the top 89% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Conserve of Hedge Mustard, for the Cure of Asthma

Ingredients

equal quantities of hedge mustard leaves
virgin honey

Directions

Beat the hedge mustard leaves and honey in a mortar to make a thin conserve.
Use Italian honey for best results, but any clean and pure honey will work.
Take the conserve as needed based on the state of the disease and the benefits experienced.

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.

Hedge mustard + honeytop 89% of all pairs

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Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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Conserve of Hedge Mustard, for the Cure of Asthma