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Compound Rhubarb Pill

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rhubarb and peppermint share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Compound Rhubarb Pill

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.

  2. Mix thoroughly to form a cohesive mass.

  3. Divide the mixture into 240 small pills.

  4. Take 2 to 4 pills twice a day, or 10 to 20 grains of the mass 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. Rhubarb + pepperminttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

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