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Soothing Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and cardamom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,114 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Soothing Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bromide, Syrup of Ginger, Syrup of Rhubarb, and Compound Tincture of Cardamoms together.

  2. Add Dill Water until the total volume reaches 4 fluid 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. Ginger + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,114 recipes

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

  2. Rhubarb + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Cardamom + dilltop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

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

  4. Ginger + rhubarbtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Ginger + dilltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the dill

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Dillthe original

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

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