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Creme De Jasmin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Creme De Jasmin

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Infuse 4 drachms of myrrh in ½ cup of Eau de Cologne for a week.

  2. Filter the mixture and add 24 drops of neroli.

  3. Combine 1 drachm of oil of wormwood, 1 drachm of oil of aniseed, ½ drachm of fennel seed, and 60 drops of tincture of benzoin.

  4. Mix with water and serve before dinner to stimulate appetite.

  5. For the Gotp Water, mix 10 drops of oil of mace, 6 drops of oil of cinnamon, and 1 drachm of essence of lemon.

  6. Filter after adding spirit and syrup, then add 2 gold leaves rubbed with a little honey.

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.

  1. Nutmeg + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Fennel + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Fennel + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Nutmeg + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Nutmeg + macetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mint, nutmeg, fennel, cinnamon, lemon, honey):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mint, nutmeg, fennel, cinnamon, lemon, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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