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Ginger Snaps V

A sweet biscuit made with molasses, brown sugar, Crisco, spices, and baking soda, baked for five to seven minutes.

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Why it works: Molasses and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,225 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Ginger Snaps V

one hundred snaps
Ovenhot oven
Timefive to seven minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Cream Crisco and sugar together.

  2. Add molasses, spices, salt, and soda mixed with boiling water.

  3. Add sufficient flour to make stiff paste.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll out thin.

  2. Cut with small cutter.

  3. Lay on Criscoed tins.

  4. Bake in hot oven for five to seven minutes.

  5. Sufficient for one hundred snaps.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

564Calories
13 gProtein
1 gFat
123 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macenot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Molasses + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Ginger + macetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,152 recipes

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

  3. Molasses + gingertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Ginger + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,564 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Molasses
Adds sweetness, dark colour and a moist, chewy character to the dough.
Baking soda
Reacts with the molasses and boiling water to lighten the dough and help it spread and crisp.
Crisco
Creamed with the sugar to give fat for tenderness and a short, crisp texture.
Flour
Provides the structure that turns the mixture into a stiff paste that holds its shape.

The step that matters

Roll out thin. Thin dough bakes quickly and crisps through; thick pieces stay soft and chewy in the middle, so the snaps lose their characteristic snap.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (molasses, sugar, ginger, flour):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Macethe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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