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Blanche Kammerer

A doughnut recipe using sugar, milk, eggs, baking powder, flour, salt, nutmeg, and lard for frying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and nutmeg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,685 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Blanche Kammerer

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Mix three eggs, one cup sugar, one cup milk, butter the size of an egg, salt to taste, a little grated nutmeg, two and one-half teaspoons baking powder, and flour until a soft dough forms.

  2. Turn the dough onto a floured board and roll it to a thickness of one-half inch.

  3. Cut the rolled dough into doughnut shapes with a doughnut cutter.

Fry

  1. Fry the doughnuts in deep hot lard until cooked.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

743Calories
27 gProtein
15 gFat
121 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Salt1 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.

By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. Milk + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Egg + nutmegtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together24,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sugar + nutmegtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together23,364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Egg and nutmeg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 24,744 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 structure and richness as they set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps keep the crumb tender.
Milk
Provides moisture that hydrates the flour and softens the dough.
Baking powder
Releases gas that lifts the dough so the doughnuts rise.
Butter (in the method)
Adds fat that tenderises the crumb and enriches the flavour.
Flour (in the method)
Forms the gluten network that gives the dough its structure.

The step that matters

Frying in deep hot lard. If the lard is too cool, the doughnuts soak up grease and turn heavy. If it is too hot, the outside browns before the centre cooks. A steady, hot frying temperature sets the crust quickly while the inside cooks through.

Swap the nutmeg

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Gingerfits less well
  4. Allspicefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, egg. 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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