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Peach Short Cake

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By Colbrath, M. Tarbox · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Peach Short Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. This luscious cake makes a delicate and grateful summer breakfast, if the peaches are sound, ripe, and of the finest flavor. Never use an inferior peach for a short cake. Proceed as for strawberry short cake in Breakfast ^""0. 45. Peel, slice thinly, and sugar the peaches to taste.

  2. BREAKFAST No. 104.

  3. Crushed Wheat. Huckleberry Short Cake. Cafe au Lait.

  4. Ripe Fruit.

  5. See Breakfast Xo. 10 for huckleberry short cake.

  6. FEUIT CAKE BREAItFASTS. 231

  7. BREAKFAST No. 105.

  8. Hominy and Milk.

  9. Strawberry Muffins. Coffee.

  10. Ripe Fruit.

  11. STRAWBERRY MUFFINS. Four cupfuls of sifted flour. Two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar. One teaspoonful of soda. One teaspoonful of salt. A heaping tablespoonful of butter. An even tablespoonful of sugar. Three eggs. Two cupfuls of sweet milk.

  12. Add soda, cream-tartar, and salt to flour, per special rule. Cream the butter and beat the sugar to it. Beat the yolks of eggs to a foam. Make a hollow in the middle of flour. Drop the sugar, butter, yolks of eggs, and milk into it. Beat these ingredients to a batter. Lastly, add the whites, beaten to a stifl" froth. Bake immediately. When well done, split and butter each half. Fill each muffin liberally with strawberries.

  13. 232 WHAT TO GET FOR BEEAKTAST.

  14. BREAKFAST No. 106.

  15. Cracked Wheat.

  16. Huckleberry Muffins. Cocoa.

  17. Ripe Fruit.

  18. HucklebeiTj muffins the same as for Breakfast j^o. 14.

  19. BREAKFAST No. 107.

  20. Cracked Wheat.

  21. Waffles. Strawberries.

  22. Fom' cupfuls of sifted flour.

  23. A heaping tablespoonful of butter.

  24. FRUIT CAKE BREAKFASTS. 233

  25. Add soda, crsam-tartar, and salt to dry flour. Cream the butter ; beat the yolks of eggs ; with the milk pour lo the flour and mix to a batter. Lastly, stir in the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stifi" froth. Butter ths waffle-irons and fill three- quarters full. Bake an even brown.

  26. BREAKFAST No. 108.

  27. Cracked Wheat. Breakfast Buns Strawberries and Cream,

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

731Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
120 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
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 + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  4. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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