Name: Diuretic Drink
Ingredients: 4 ounces Glauber's salts; ½ ounce Castile soap; 1½ pints rue tea or 1 pint thin gruel; 1 ounce prepared kali; 1 ounce caraway seeds, powdered; ½ ounce oil of juniper, powdered; ½ ounce ginger, fresh powdered; ⅓ cup brandy

Why it works: Tea and ginger work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 216 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Diuretic Drink

Ingredients

Directions

Dissolve Glauber's salts and Castile soap in rue tea or thin gruel.
Add prepared kali and powdered caraway seeds.
Mix in oil of juniper and fresh powdered ginger.
Finally, stir in the brandy and serve immediately.

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.

Tea + gingertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together216 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Caraway + gingertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together288 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Tea + carawaytop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Tea + brandytop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together121 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Caraway + brandytop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together104 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).