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Sugar Cookies III

A simple sugar cookie made with flour, shortening, eggs, sugar, milk, nutmeg, lemon rind, baking powder, and salt.

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Why it works: Nutmeg and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,318 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sugar Cookies III

Ovenmoderate oven
Timeabout 10 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Cream the shortening and add the beaten eggs, sugar and milk.

  2. Add flour, baking powder, nutmeg, lemon rind and salt, and mix well.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll out thin on floured pastry board and cut with cookie cutter.

  2. Bake on greased baking pan in moderate oven about 10 minutes.

  3. One minute before cookies are done, sprinkle each one with a little granulated sugar.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

857Calories
28 gProtein
27 gFat
125 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure that holds the cookie's shape as it bakes.
Shortening
Adds fat that tenderises the crumb and carries flavour.
Eggs
Bind the dough and add structure and richness.
Sugar
Sweetens the cookies and helps them brown at the edges.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking so the cookies rise and lighten.

The step that matters

Rolling out thin. Dough rolled thin and cut to an even thickness bakes evenly. Thick or uneven pieces stay soft in the middle while thin edges over-brown.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, egg, sugar, milk, nutmeg. 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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