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Soothing Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Spirit and syrup work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 141 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Soothing Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the Spirit of Anise, Syrup of Morphine Sulphate, and Syrup of Balsam of Tolu together.

  2. Add enough syrup to produce a total of 10 fl. ounces.

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. Spirit + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together141 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Spirit + anisetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Anise + syruptop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the anise

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spirit, syrup):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Clovefits about as well
  4. Anisethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spirit, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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