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Why it works: Corn and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 933 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

New Orleans, LA

Ingredients

Directions

  1. T. J. & Wit BYRNES,

  2. Grocers $ f ea Dealers,

  3. 3 Big Stores

  4. Dryades Street, Head of Market. St. Andrew and Annunciation Sts. Dryades and Terpsichore Sts.

  5. >s' Phones 841 & 1192.

  6. The Celebrated Fox River Creamery Butter Received Daily by Express

  7. Dropped Corn Bread.

  8. One pint of fine white corn meal, thoroughly scalded with boiling- water; when cool, add two eggs well beaten; salt to taste, and thin it with sufficient milk to make it drop from spoon (say about half a cup).

  9. Mrs. W. W. Carre.

  10. Thomas Bread.

  11. One tumbler sweet milk; two eggs, well beaten; two even tablespoonsful sugar; two even tablespoonsful of melted butter; flour until it makes a stiff batter; desertspoonful of Dixie Baking Powder. Mrs. Alma S. Wynn.

  12. One quart of flour, one heaping tablespoonful of lard, one teaspoonful of salt, three teaspoonfuls oi Dixie baking powder and sweet milk enough to make a soft dough. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together three times. (Leave a little of the flour in sifter for the board), sift the flour into the tray or bowl, then put the spoonful of lard in the centre, and mix with the milk, using a large spoon and stirring the dough as little as possible; have the dough as soft as can be bandied or rolled out. Roll thin and cut with biscuit cutter, bake at once in a very hot oven.

  13. Mrs. Minnie M. Wilkinson.

  14. Beaten Biscuit.

  15. One quart of flour, one tablespoonful of lard, one good teaspoonful of salt, and sweet milk sufficient to make a stiff dough. Beat long and well, or better still, roll through a dough kneader until the dough blisters and pops.

  16. Mrs. W. H. LaPrade, Shreveport, La.

  17. WOMANS' -

  18. Christian Temperance Union Restaurant,

  19. 632 Qravier Street, ■etwSg£*<)S5X!SS'. c,mp

  20. //AK Meals served from 7 a m. to 6 p. m.

  21. Breakfast 25 Cents. Dinner 85 Cts. Lunch 15 Cents.

  22. Coffee a Specialty, 5 cents a Cup.

  23. Fruits, Cakes and Pies

  24. L. S. WIDNEY DAVID ZABLE

  25. WIDNEY &ZABLE,

  26. 4716=4718 flagazine Street, Above Valence.

  27. COAL, COAK and VADH WOOD_^> 1 f\t\U9

  28. HAY, CORN, OATS and FEED of a11 Kin^

  29. Families Supplied with the Celebrated Snow- Hill Coal at market prices.

  30. MAIN OFFICE, ROOM 314 HENNEN BUILDING, TELEPHONES, 82. 331. 1536. Pennsylvania Coal Co., L. S. WIDNEY, Manager.

  31. Graham Bread.

  32. One cake compressed yeast; three quarts of Graham flour; one kitchen spoonful of lard; one large cup of brown sugar; one tablespoon of salt; mix well the lard, sugar and salt into the flour before putting in your yeast which should be well dissolved in colci water; if set by eight in the morning, will be ready to make into loaves by three in the afternoon. Mrs. H. J. Mullen.

  33. Corn Meal Bread.

  34. One pint of corn meal; one teaspoon of salt; two large tablespoons of hot rice; one or two eggs, beat together; pour on just enough boiling water to make a thick mush; form it into a round cake in a pie-plate, being careful to not let it get cold; then bake until there is a good crust bottom and top; don't use fine meal.

  35. Corn Meal Cakes.

  36. One pound of sugar; half pound butter; one nutmeg; one pound of meal; four eggs; one cupful of flour; after sifting the meal take out a cupful of meal and put into the cupful of flour; beat up with other ingredients, and drop from a spoon on greased pans and cook in quick oven.

  37. Miss Mary Wilkinson.

  38. W LIMITED. @

  39. Cor. Magazine and Julia,

  40. Cor. Washington and Prytania

  41. 'Phone 697.

  42. Finest Carrages for Hire for Balls, Parties, Weddings, etc.

  43. Breakfast and Tea Cakes. 11

  44. I Breakfast and Tea Cakes. f

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1243Calories
35 gProtein
41 gFat
183 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Lard1 tbsp (12.8g)115
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cakenot 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 New Orleans. Parker Memorial M. E. church, South. [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. Corn + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

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

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  5. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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