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 ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
-Liobster Salad.
To the yolks of four hard-boiled ^gg'i add a little pepper and salt and a gill of vinegar. Stir this all together. Cut up some celery or cabbage fine, mix carefully with the lobster in the dish in which it is to be .served. Then pour the mixture over it.
Mrs. George.
Tomato Salad.
Take off the skins, cut in thin slices, and lay in a salad bowl. Make a dressing by working a tea-spoon full of salt and made mustard, a little pepper, the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, with two table-spoons full of melted butter. Then whip in five table- spoons full of good vinegar. Pour over the tomatoes, and let it cool for an hour before serving. Mrs. George.
Wild Plum Catsup.
To ten pounds of plums take five pounds of sugar. Boil, mash and strain the fruit. For every quart of juice add rather more than one and one-half pints of vinegar. Add cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Boil fifteen minutes. Mrs. Howard.
Tomato Catsup.
Boil tomatoes and strain in a sieve. To one gallon of juice put four spoons full of salt, four of black pepper, four of ground mustard, three of allspice, two of cinnamon, one cup of sugar, one quart of vinegar. Boil until thick. Mrs. L. B. France.
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Plum | 1 medium (66g) | 30 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Clove | 1 tsp ground (2g) | 7 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Vinegar | 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled | 3 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together14,189 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
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Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together17,451 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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Plum + cinnamontop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together513 recipes
Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
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Plum + clovetop 8% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together446 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
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Plum + peppertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,052 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the plum
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, vinegar, pepper, egg, butter, cinnamon, clove):
- Lemonfits about as well
- Figfits about as well
- Vanillafits about as well
- Plumthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, vinegar, pepper, egg, butter, cinnamon, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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