Name: Compound Tincture of Cardamom
Ingredients: 360 grains cardamom powder; 120 grains caraway powder; 300 grains cinnamon powder; 60 grains cochineal powder; 2 ounces clarified honey; dilute alcohol (sufficient quantity)

Why it works: Cardamom and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,299 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Compound Tincture of Cardamom

Ingredients

360 grains cardamom powder
120 grains caraway powder
300 grains cinnamon powder
60 grains cochineal powder
2 ounces clarified honey
dilute alcohol (sufficient quantity)

Directions

Mix the cardamom, caraway, cinnamon, and cochineal powders.
Moisten the mixture with ½ ounce of dilute alcohol.
Pack the mixture into a cylindrical percolator.
Pour dilute alcohol over the mixture until you obtain 2 pints and 6 ounces of tincture.
Mix the tincture with the clarified honey and filter through paper.

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.

Cardamom + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,299 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cardamom + carawaytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together40 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Caraway + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together188 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Cinnamon + honeytop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,446 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).
Cardamom + honeytop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together145 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).