Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Two cupsful brown sugar, One cupful butter, One cupful sour milk, Three cupsful flour,
214 ILLINOIS COOK BOOK.
Yelks seven eggs,
Spice to taste.
Mix each cake separately ; paper the bottom of your pan and grease well, then cover the bottom with some of the dark cake, and then add white and dark alter- nately till all is in the pan. Bake an hour and a half.
Molasses Cup Cake.
One coffeecupful sour milk or cream,
One coffeecupful of mixed butter and lard,
Water Cookies.
Two teacupsful sugar, One teacupful butter, One teacupful cold water, Half teaspoonful soda,
ILLINOIS COOK BOOK. 215
One teaspoonful cream tartar, Flour enough to roll, Ginger to taste.
Soft Ginger Cake.
Half teacuplul butter, Half teacupful brown sugar, Half teacupful molasses, One teacupful and a half flour, Half teacupful sour milk, One teaspoonful soda, One tablespoonful ginger, Two eggs.
Soft Ginger Cake.
One teacupful mixed butter and lard,
Four teacupsful and a half flour,
One teacupful sour milk or water,
Or with water, fourteaspoonsful baking powder,
Soft Ginger Bread.
One teacupful butter, Two teacupsful sugar,
216 ILLINOIS COOK BOOK.
One tablespoonful and a half ginger,
Cinnamon and allspice to the taste.
Ginger Snaps.
(BEN. WATSON'S.) Half pound butter, Half pound sugar, One pint New Orleans molasses, One ounce ginger.
Flour enough to make very stiff dough; work smooth and roll thin, cut with a small cutter. Bake dark brown.
Sponge Ginger Bread*
Melt a piece of butter the size of a hen's egg,
Dissolve a tablespoonful of saleratue in half a pint sour milk, strain and mix ; add flour enough to enable you to roll about an inch thick, and bake in a quick oven.
ILLINOIS COOK BOOK. 217
( MRS. DR. RYAN. )
Two coffeecupsful molasses^ v One coffeecupful lard, One tablespoonful ginger, One tablespoonful mustard, One tablespoonful soda, Flour enough to make very soft. Roll thin and bake quickly.
Soft Ginger Bread.
One coffeecupful butter, One pint molasses, One tablespoonful ginger. One pint flour, Two eggs,
Two tablespoonsful saleratus,. Half pint sour milk. Flour to make as stiff batter as pound cake.
xY Jumbles.
Three teacupsful sugar, Two teacupsful butter, Three eggs,
Four tablespoonsful sour cream, One teaspoonful soda.
Roll thin, sprinkle with coffee sugar thickly on the top before placing in the oven. —18
218 ILLINOIS COOK BOOK.
Soft G-inger Bread.
( JANE ILES. )
One pint New Orleans molasses, Two tablespoonsful butter, Three pint? and a half flour, Two tablespoonsful ginger, Half pint sour milk, One tablespoonful soda.
Raised Cake without Eggs.
Stir together a coffeecupful of light sugar and half a cupful of butter; add a pint of warm water, half a cupful of yeast, and flour enough to make as thick as ordinary fruit cake; rise over night; when very light, add a little mace, cinnamon, allspice and nut- meg, one cupful chopped raisins. Put in the pan, let rise until light, then bake.
G-inger Snaps.
Piece of butter the size of an egg,
Quarter of a teaspoonful soda dissolved in
warm water, One spoonful ginger, Flour to roll.
Lou's Ginger Snaps.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 17 of 19 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 17 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Sour Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Lard | 1 tbsp (12.8g) | 115 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Yogurt | 170g plain Greek | 100 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Molasses | 1 tbsp (20g) | 58 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Clove | 1 tsp ground (2g) | 7 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Allspice | 1 tsp ground (1.9g) | 5 |
| Mustard | 1 tsp (5g) yellow | 3 |
| Ginger | 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Mace | not in our table | 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.
Explore the science
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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Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together6,038 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Butter + milktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Molasses + sugartop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,225 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, milk, molasses, ginger, cream, sugar, flour):
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- Nutmegfits better
- Cardamomfits better
- Clovethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against butter, milk, molasses, ginger, cream, sugar, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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