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Hair, to Thicken

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rosemary and almond share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 86 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Hair, to Thicken

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the rosemary and honey with the white wine.

  2. Distill the mixture together.

  3. Add the sweet almond oil and shake well.

  4. When using, pour a little into a cup, warm it, and rub it into the roots of the hair.

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. Rosemary + almondtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Rosemary + honeytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Honey + almondtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,069 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. White wine + honeytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. White wine + rosemarytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together412 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, rosemary, honey):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, rosemary, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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