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Eveelasting Cookies

Rolled, sugar-topped cookies made from butter, sugar, eggs, and milk or sour cream, leavened with soda or baking powder.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.) · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Caraway and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Eveelasting Cookies

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Rub butter and sugar together.

  2. Add two eggs, milk and flour to make a soft dough.

  3. Add flour enough to form a soft dough.

  4. Beat the eggs separately.

  5. Add one teaspoon of soda.

  6. Beat the cream and yolks well together.

  7. Mix soft and roll out very thick.

Shape and bake

  1. Roll thin.

  2. Sprinkle a little sugar over the top.

  3. Roll out thin and bake in a quick oven.

  4. Bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

896Calories
28 gProtein
32 gFat
122 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Caraway Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.). 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.

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.

  1. Caraway + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the dough and add richness and structure as they set in the oven.
Butter
Adds fat for tenderness and a rich flavour in the cookie.
Sugar
Sweetens the cookies and helps them brown at the surface.
Flour (in the method)
Forms the main structure of the dough once it is mixed with liquid.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the dough to help the cookies rise and lighten.

The step that matters

Bake in a quick oven. A hot oven sets the outside of the cookie quickly, so it browns and keeps its shape instead of spreading and drying out. Rolling the dough thin keeps it crisp and even.

Swap the caraway

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, cream, egg, milk, nutmeg):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Allspicefits about as well
  3. Clovefits about as well
  4. Carawaythe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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