Name: Eggless Fruit Cake
Ingredients: one cupful butter; one-half cupfuls sugar; one cupful sour milk; one teaspoonful soda; two teaspoonfuls williams pubuc library association 57 ground cinnamon; two cupfuls raisins; two cupfuls currants; one-half cupfuls flour; 57 ground cinnamon

Why it works: Raisin and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Eggless Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Directions

One cupful butter, one and one-half cupfuls sugar, one cupful sour milk or buttermilk, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls
WILLIAMS PUBUC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 57
ground cinnamon, two cupfuls raisins, two cupfuls currants, two and one-half cupfuls flour. — Mrs. C. M. Wolfe, Williams, Ariz.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

823Calories

22 gProtein

21 gFat

138 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Sour Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
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.

Raisin + flourtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,075 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,390 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Cinnamon + flourtop 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).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, milk, cinnamon, raisin, flour):

Vanillafits better
Figfits better
Applefits better
Currantthe original

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