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Bouillon Amee, Foe Sickness At the Stomach

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chamomile and orange work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Bouillon Amee, Foe Sickness At the Stomach

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the centaury, absinthe, chamomile flowers, thistle leaves, millepedes, and veronica finely and mix well.

  2. Store the mixture in a box.

  3. When ready to use, take 4 grains of the mixture and combine it with 1 pound of veal or chicken.

  4. Add 1 quart of water and boil slowly until reduced by half.

  5. Remove from heat and strain through a fine sieve.

  6. Divide the broth into two portions.

  7. Consume one portion in the morning and the other three to four hours after dinner for two to three weeks to strengthen the stomach.

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. Chamomile + orangetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Chamomile + thistletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Thistle + orangetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Orange + vealtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Thistle + vealtop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chamomile, thistle, veal):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Orangethe original
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Figfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against chamomile, thistle, veal. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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