Why it works: Caraway and fenugreek share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Combine caraway seeds, gentian root, zedoary root, fenugreek seeds, and Mithridate in a bowl.
Mix the powders with 1½ pints of warm ale.
Administer the drink in the morning on an empty stomach.
Do not give any food for two hours after the drink.
After two hours, provide a mash of bran and oats.
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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Caraway + fenugreektop 7% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together10 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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