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Soluble Lemon Extract

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and spirit work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 256 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Soluble Lemon Extract

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a half-gallon bottle, mix the oil of lemon and 3 pints of cologne spirits. Shake for 15 minutes.

  2. Add the glycerine and shake again.

  3. In a warm two-gallon bottle, pour in ½ gallon of hot water.

  4. Add the mixture of oil of lemon, cologne spirits, and glycerine; shake or roll constantly for 2 hours.

  5. Let stand for 24 hours.

  6. Use a rubber tube to siphon the extract from beneath the undissolved oil.

  7. Add the remaining 4 ounces of cologne spirits.

  8. Filter through filter paper and bottle for future use.

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. Lemon + spirittop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together256 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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