Why it works: Camphor and lavender work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
To make benzoated suet, render and strain the suet, then stir in 2 drams of powdered benzoin or benzoic acid.
Melt the white wax in the suet mixture over gentle heat.
Powder the camphor gum by adding a few drops of alcohol, then stir it into the wax and suet mixture.
Once cool, add the English oil lavender.
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.
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Camphor + lavendertop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together44 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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