Why it works: Fish and lavender work together. They rank in the top 62% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Lavender Tooth Powder
Ingredients
Directions
Mix crimson lake and Chinese blue together.
Add cuttle-fish bone and precipitated chalk to the mixture.
Stir in the oil of lavender until well combined.
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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Fish + lavendertop 62% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1 recipe
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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