Name: Garlic As a Health Remedy
Ingredients: 1 clove of garlic; bread; salt; salad (optional); milk (optional)

Why it works: Clove and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,368 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Garlic As a Health Remedy

Ingredients

Directions

Eat 1 clove of garlic at breakfast or dinner.
You can eat it with bread and salt, like cress or any uncooked vegetable.
Chop the garlic finely and sprinkle it over salad with hard-boiled eggs or cold fish.
For young children, boil the garlic in milk.
If repugnant, swallow it in pill form.

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.

Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Garlic + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together767 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,129 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Clove + milktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,165 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).