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Pine-Tar Dandruff Shampoo

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Pine-Tar Dandruff Shampoo

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the pine tar and linseed oil to 140°F (60°C).

  2. Make a solution of potassa and water.

  3. Gradually add the potassa solution to the heated oils while stirring constantly.

  4. Continue heating until the mixture is thoroughly saponified.

  5. When almost cool, add the lavender oil, orange oil, and bergamot oil.

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. Orange oil + bergamottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lavender + orange oiltop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pine + orange oiltop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Pine + bergamottop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the bergamot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, lavender, orange oil):

  1. Lemonfits about as well
  2. Bergamotthe original
  3. Orangefits less well
  4. Limefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, lavender, orange oil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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