Why it works: Rose and olive work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 153 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Oil Op Roses By Infusion
Ingredients
Directions
Pick and peel the rose petals, then beat them to a pulp.
Combine the rose pulp with olive oil in a container.
Expose the mixture to sunlight for one week.
After a week, press out the oil.
Repeat the process with fresh rose petals two more times.
Leave the remaining rose petals in the oil for future use.
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.
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Rose + olivetop 27% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together153 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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