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Geranium Water

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lavender and bergamot work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 82 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Geranium Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the oil of rose geranium and tincture of musk in a bowl.

  2. Add carbolic acid and carbolic toilet water, stirring well.

  3. Incorporate tincture of quillaya saponaria, musk, lavender, bergamot, and oil of lavender.

  4. Add bracing oil and dilute alcohol, mixing thoroughly.

  5. The finished product will mix with water and can be used as a fine barbers’ toilet water.

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. Lavender + bergamottop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rose + geraniumtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-rose oxide (green, flower).

  3. Rose + bergamottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Geranium + bergamottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Geranium + lavendertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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