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Alice Hart Roscoe, Missouri

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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Alice Hart Roscoe, Missouri

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a hole in the center of one quart of flour, and put in a piece of butter (melted) the size of an o.^'g., a little salt and a tablespoon of sugar; pour over this one pint of cold, boiled milk and one-half teacup of yeast. When the sponge is light, work fifteen minutes; let it rise again and cut in round cakes. When light, flatten each cake with the rolling-pin, put a small piece of butter on the top, and fold over. Put in pans, and when light, bake in a quick oven.

  2. MRS. J, PARMELEE.

  3. Make a sponge of flour and three large tablespoons of yeast, at noon; the same evening, take one quart of new milk and warm sufiiciently to melt one half cup of butter with two cups of sugar; ■when cool, add two eggs well beaten; then take what you judge to be a right quantity of flour and pour the milk, etc., with the sponge into the middle of it, stir into a light dough and let it rise all night; in the morning, make up.

  4. 9a BREAD AND YEAST.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

833Calories
27 gProtein
26 gFat
120 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

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

By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog]. 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.

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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.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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