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Machine-made Crullers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Machine-made Crullers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve 6 lbs dry milk in 24 quarts ice water with 7 oz baking soda.

  2. In a large bowl, mix 22 lbs sugar, 6 lbs fat, 2 oz salt, and 1 oz nutmeg.

  3. Add 40 cold eggs to the mixture and blend well.

  4. Incorporate 71 lbs winter-wheat flour, 10 oz cream of tartar, and 10 oz baking powder into the mixture.

  5. Knead the dough until smooth and then shape into crullers.

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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Nutmeg + wheattop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together359 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, milk, wheat, flour, cream):

  1. Cinnamonfits about as well
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Turmericfits less well
  4. Jalapenofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, milk, wheat, flour, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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