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Camphor Pomade

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Camphor and clove work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 39 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Melt the white wax and lard together.

  2. Add the camphor in a saturated solution in spirit.

  3. When nearly cold, mix in the oil of bitter almonds and cloves.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Camphor + clovetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Almond + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Camphor + almondtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (camphor, clove):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Walnutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against camphor, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).