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Why it works: Ginger and tea work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 216 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

L'envoi

Ingredients

Directions

  1. There's this about the marriage tie:

  2. You'd suffer all for my sweet sake, But how about the hats I buy?

  3. And will you scorn the bread I bake?

  4. Soak one cake yeast foam in a little warm water over night. In morning grate two large or three medium potatoes, add one- third cup sugar, heaping tablespoon salt and three pints boiling water. \Yhen cool, add yeast, cover well, let rise in a warm place ; after it rises, put in cool place. — Mrs. C. Wisehart, Flag- staff, Ariz.

  5. One tablespoon sugar, two-thirds teaspoon ginger, one tea- spooon salt, two cup? flour, one pint boiling water. Mix all

  6. WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 19

  7. together, boil till thick ; when cool, add yeast cake, dissolved in water. — Mrs. Geo. A. Cole, Middletown, Conn.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

506Calories
13 gProtein
1 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Cakenot 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.

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. See the original page.

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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. Ginger + teatop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together216 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Tea + flourtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together449 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 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

Swap the ginger

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerthe original
  3. Jalapenofits about as well
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

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

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