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Lenten Honey Cookies

Lenten Honey Cookies are cookies made with shortening, oil, orange juice, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, flour, walnuts, and pastry flour, finished with honey syrup.

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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Lenten Honey Cookies

Oven325°F
Time30 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F.

  2. Beat shortening and oil together until light.

  3. Gradually add orange juice and sugar, beating until well blended.

  4. Sift together baking powder, baking soda, and all-purpose flour.

  5. Add the sifted dry ingredients gradually, beating thoroughly.

  6. Add walnuts and pastry flour; knead in some of the flour if necessary on a lightly floured board.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll dough into six-inch long strips, one inch thick.

  2. Cut strips diagonally into one-inch long pieces.

  3. Place pieces on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes or until lightly browned.

Make the syrup and finish

  1. Combine syrup ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes.

  2. Skim and cool the syrup.

  3. Dip hot cookies into the cooled syrup using a slotted spoon.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

877Calories
15 gProtein
29 gFat
140 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Pastrynot in our table0
Syrupnot 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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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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Orange + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Orange + honeytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,068 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Flour + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Shortening
Provides fat that keeps the cookies tender and short in texture.
Oil
Adds fat and moisture, keeping the cookie crumb soft and tender.
All-purpose flour
Provides the main structure as its proteins set during baking.
Pastry flour
Lower protein flour that keeps the dough tender rather than chewy.
Liquid honey
Adds sweetness and moisture to the syrup that coats the cookies.

The step that matters

Dip hot cookies into the cooled syrup. Cookies must be hot so they absorb the syrup, while the syrup must be cooled so it clings rather than thinning and soaking in too far. Skimming removes foam that would mar the coating.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sugar, flour, syrup, honey):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, sugar, flour, syrup, honey. 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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