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Liver Pills

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Burdock and flour share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Liver Pills

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil burdock root, yellow parilla root, and dwarf elder roots in water until thickened.

  2. Strain the mixture and mix with strong tar.

  3. Add flour to form a dough.

  4. Shape the dough into small pills.

  5. Dry the pills and store in a box for 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. Burdock + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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