Name: Minnie's Premium Cake
Ingredients: one cup butter; two cups sugar; one cup thick cream; one teaspoonful cream of tartar; half teaspoon soda; half corn starch; four eggs

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 41,516 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Minnie's Premium Cake

Ingredients

Directions

One cup butter, two cups sugar, one and a half of flour, one and a half corn starch, one cup thick cream, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, half teaspoon soda, four eggs. Beat yolks and whites separately.
184 CAKES.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Butter + corntop 14% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together7,345 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).