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Hair Dressing with Bay Rum Nicer Than Alcohol

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bergamot and lemon work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 108 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Hair Dressing with Bay Rum Nicer Than Alcohol

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine bay rum, castor oil, and tincture of cantharides in a bowl.

  2. Add your choice of optional oils for fragrance.

  3. Mix well and store in a bottle.

  4. Apply as needed to the hair and scalp.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bergamot + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Rum + bergamottop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  3. Rum + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Lemon + grasstop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Rum + grasstop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the bergamot

The recipe marks bergamot as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, lemon, grass):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Bergamotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, lemon, grass. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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