Name: Baking Powder Coffee Cake
Ingredients: one cup sugar; one cup milk; two cups of flour; one tablespoon of butter; one egg; one large teaspoon of cinnamon; one heaping teaspoonful of bakin^ 52 the arizona cook book powder; one tablespoon of lard melted together

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Baking Powder Coffee Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Combine one cup sugar, one cup milk, one egg, one large teaspoon of cinnamon, two cups of flour, one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, one tablespoon of butter, and one tablespoon of lard melted together in a mixing pan and stir together well.
Bake in jelly tins.
Sprinkle a little sugar and cinnamon over tops before baking.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

954Calories

28 gProtein

39 gFat

122 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Lard	1 tbsp (12.8g)	115
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6

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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,341 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,655 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together30,779 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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: Provides the structure that holds the cake together as it bakes.
Egg: Binds the batter and helps give the cake its structure.
Baking powder: Releases gas as it heats, making the cake rise and become light.
Milk: Adds moisture to the batter and helps it come together smoothly.
Butter and lard: Add fat, which tenderizes the crumb and adds richness.
Sugar: Sweetens the cake and helps the top brown as it bakes.

“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.