Name: Fruit Cookies
Ingredients: two cups of brown sugar; one cup of shorting; one cup of sour milk; one teaspoon of williams public library association h5 soda; one teaspoon of cinnamon; one-half teaspoon of cloves; one cup of chopped raisins; one cup of chopped walnuts; two eggs

Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Fruit Cookies

Ingredients

Directions

Two cups of brown sugar, one cup of shorting, (butter and lard), two eggs, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoon of
WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION H5
soda, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one-half teaspoon of cloves, one cup of chopped raisins, one cup of chopped walnuts and flour to mix soft. — Mrs. Rose L. Hicks, Williams, Ariz.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

377Calories

16 gProtein

16 gFat

45 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sour Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
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.

Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,390 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Cinnamon + walnuttop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,147 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Clove + walnuttop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,592 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Clove + raisintop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,070 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Swap the walnut

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

Almondfits better
Chestnutfits better
Pistachiofits about as well
Walnutthe original

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