Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓
To Make Lard
Ingredients
Directions
Take the leaf fat, wash it off with warm water, remove the skin, and cut the fat in small pieces. Put one quart water in a large pot, and dissolve in it three teaspoonsful of bread soda. Then fill up the pot with lard and set it on the fire. Stir it constantly to keep it from scorching. When the cracklings are a light brown, and commence to sink, the lard is done. Strain it through a coarse cloth; put it in tin "cans or stone jars, and tie it up tight. No salt is used with the soda, and I have found, from long experience, that soda is the better of the two to use. Meat fat is prepared the same way. It is best to keep it separate. The butcher's fat requires no water, as it has to lie in water twenty-four hours before it can be cooked. Put more soda to it than to lard.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| 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.
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.
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Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together92,116 recipes
Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
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