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Dressed Lettuce and Celery

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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 ↓

Dressed Lettuce and Celery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lettuce and celery mixed together are very nice. Cut both verv fine. Dress them with sus-ar and

  2. FISH BKEAKFASTS. 171

  3. lemon juice, diluted with a little water. The acid of lemon is a much pleasanter adjunct than vinegar.

  4. BREAKFAST No. 62.

  5. Cracked Wheat. Fried Trout. Baked Potatoes.

  6. Soda Muffins. Coffee.

  7. Ripe Fruit.

  8. FRIED TROUT. Trout are of the genus of salmon. Small trout are best fried. They should be washed, wiped ^^y^ egged, rolled in salted flour, and fried in butter. Serve them with plain melted butter, and garnish with parsley.

  9. SODA MUFFINS. One quart of flour. One heaping teaspoonful of soda. One teaspoonful of salt. A heaping dessert-spoonful of butter. Two or three eo-o^s. One pint and a half of sour milk.

  10. 172 WHAT TO GET FOR BREAIvFAST.

  11. Sift salt and soda with the flour. Cream the butter. Beat the eggs, yolks and whites separately, then together. Add the butter to the middle of the flour, then the eggs ; lastly, pour in the milk, and beat all to a light batter. Fill muffin or cake- pans nearly two-thirds full, and put them into a quick oven instantaneously.

  12. BREAKFAST No. 63.

  13. Cracked Wheat.

  14. Fried Smelts. Baked Potatoes.

  15. Breakfast Twists. Coffee and Griddle Cakes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

504Calories
13 gProtein
1 gFat
108 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Colbrath, M. Tarbox. 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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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