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Honey Soap

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and citronella work together. They rank in the top 41% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Honey Soap

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine honey, otto of citronella, and melted bar soap in an iron vessel.

  2. Place the vessel in a larger pot of hot water to melt the mixture.

  3. Stir until well combined.

  4. Use as a skin treatment.

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. Honey + citronellatop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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