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To Cure a Burn Without a Scar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and rum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,007 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Simmer the butter and sage in a pan until the sage becomes crisp.

  2. Add the beeswax and stir until melted.

  3. Pour in the rum and stir until the mixture cools.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + rumtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,007 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + sagetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,312 recipes

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

  3. Sage + rumtop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, rum):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  3. Mintbetter flavor fit
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, rum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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