Name: Lemon Sponge Cake Pudding
Ingredients: one pint of white sugar; a pound of buttei; one quarter of a pound of buttei; four wine-glassfuls of water; four eggs; two table-spoonfuls of white sugar to each white

Why it works: Sugar and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lemon Sponge Cake Pudding

Ingredients

one pint of white sugar
a pound of buttei
one quarter of a pound of buttei
four wine-glassfuls of water
four eggs
two table-spoonfuls of white sugar to each white

Directions

One pint of white sugar, one quarter of a pound of buttei, throe lemons, four wine-glassfuls of water, yelks of four eggs ; cook down thick, and pour over sponge cake sliced in a pan ; beat the whites with two table-spoonfuls of white sugar to each white, and put it over the top of pudding ; let it remain in the

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

127Calories

6 gProtein

5 gFat

13 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
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.

By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo. 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.

Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + winetop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together9,581 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Wine + eggtop 33% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,918 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).