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Glycerin and Horehound Cough Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Glycerin and Horehound Cough Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the Horehound and Poppy Capsules in a large pot.

  2. Add the Refined Sugar, Glycerin, and Clarified Honey.

  3. Stir in the Ipecacuanha Wine and Solution of Ammonium Acetate.

  4. Mix in the Spirit of Nitrous Ether and Spirit of Peppermint.

  5. Add enough Distilled Water to make a total of 1 gallon.

  6. Stir well until all ingredients are fully combined.

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. Honey + spirittop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (sweet).

  3. Honey + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutanoic acid ethyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Honey + pepperminttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together345 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Wine + pepperminttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the peppermint

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

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

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

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