IllustrationWhy it works: Sugar and egg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 122,252 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Also mentioned in the method: milk, butter
Directions
MRS. HUGH ROBERTSON.
Two cups of powdered sugar, one of butter, one of sweet milk, two of flour, one of corn starch, whites of seven eggs, and two teaspoonfuls of yeast powder.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Sugar + eggtop 10% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together122,252 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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