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Cough Syrup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and rum work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Cough Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the hop tea, brown sugar, and Jamaica rum thoroughly over heat.

  2. Take 1 to 2 teaspoons as a dose every 4 hours, or more often as needed.

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. Tea + rumtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Sugar + rumtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Tea + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,204 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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