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Lime Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Lime Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine almond oil and castor oil in a bowl.

  2. Add oil of bergamot and oil of lemon.

  3. Mix in saccharated solution of lime and solution of borax.

  4. Gradually add enough solution of lime to reach a total of 36 fl. ounces.

  5. Stir until well 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. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Almond + limetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Bergamot + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bergamot + limetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the bergamot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, lemon, lime):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Bergamotthe original

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

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