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A Drink for a Cold, When Very Severe.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Beer and spirit work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

A Drink for a Cold, When Very Severe.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil Diapente in a quart of beer.

  2. Allow the mixture to cool nearly to room temperature.

  3. Add Balsam of sulphur, Treacle, and Spirits of hartshorn.

  4. Stir well to combine.

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. Beer + spirittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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