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Lemon Verbena Drop Recipe

An amazing lemon verbena drop recipe courtesy of the Eatwell Farm newsletter.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon verbena and sugar work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

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By 101cookbooks. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lemon verbena + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  2. Vodka + sugartop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lemon verbena + vodkatop 32% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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