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Absinthe Drip Recipe

Traditionally this drink was served with cold water and a cube of sugar because absinthe is very bitter. The sugar was placed on a decorative, nearly flat, slotted...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Anise and sugar work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 328 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Absinthe Drip Recipe

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Anise + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together328 recipes

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

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