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Children’s Cough Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Wine and spirit work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 701 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Children’s Cough Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients thoroughly in a large container.

  2. Add syrup gradually until the total volume reaches 1 gallon.

  3. Store in a sealed bottle away from light.

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. Wine + spirittop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together701 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Anise + spirittop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Wine + anisetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

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 (wine, spirit, syrup):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Anisethe original

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

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