Why it works: Cocoa butter and sesame work together. They rank in the top 45% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Glycerine and Cocoa Cream for Chapped Hands
Ingredients
Directions
Melt and mix the spermaceti, cocoa butter, castor oil, and oil of benne in a double boiler.
Once melted, remove from heat and stir in the glycerine.
Add perfume to taste and mix well.
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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Cocoa butter + sesametop 45% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1 recipe
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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