Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Bread, Cornbread, Muffins
Ingredients
Directions
Coffee Cake.
Four cups of raised dough, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg | cup butter, 1 tablespoon lard ; knead the same as bread ; let it rise until light, and then knead again ; when ready to put in the oven, spread on butter, a little sugar and cinnamon.
Coffee Cake.
With 1 quart flour, sift 1 teaspoon of baking powder ; rub into this 1 tablespoon butter and lard. Add 2 well beaten eggs, 2 cups sugar. 1 teaspoon cinnamon, H cup stewed raisins and 2 cups soft sponge. Mix well together to constistency of bread and let rise in a warm, greased jar for about 2 hours. Mould into loaves and let rise again until quite light. Hake in moderate oven.
Breakfast Buns.
Take i cup of lard, 1 cup of bread sponge. 2 cups warm water, 1 cup sugar, and salt to the taste. Make a coft dough, just after dinner in winter, or in summer at about 3 or 4 o'clock, and let it rise until !» o'clock in the evening. Then mold it into buns about the size of an egg, place in pans an inch apart each way. Set pans in a warm place and bake in the morning.
Corn Bread.
Two cups of flour, 1 cup of corn meal, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon of butter, melted, H cup of sweet milk, ^ cup of sugar, 3 teaspoons of baking powder, salt.
Corn Cakes.
Two cups flour, § cup corn meal. 5 cup butter, f cup white sugar, 2 eggs, well beaten, i cup milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons of cream tartar or three teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in a hot oven 20 minutes. Use gem tins.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Lard | 1 tbsp (12.8g) | 115 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Corn | 1/2 cup kernels (82g) | 77 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | 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.
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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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Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together17,341 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Cinnamon + corntop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together647 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
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Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the cinnamon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, butter, bread, corn, cream, egg):
- Nutmegfits better
- Cinnamonthe original
- Capersfits less well
- Tarragonfits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, butter, bread, corn, cream, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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