Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓
Beefsteak a LA Frying Pan
Ingredients
Directions
See Breakfast Xo. 9. Make a gravy by pour- ing half a cup of hot water to the pan in which the steak was cooked, and adding a thickening made of half a teaspoonfid of flour and a table- spoonful of butter. Let these come to a boil, which pour over the steak and serve.
244 WHAT TO GET FOR BREAKFAST.
FRIED HASTY PUDDING BALLS. Make yonr hasty pudding per rule in Breakfast Xo. 4. When cooked, and while hot, stir one heaping teaspoonful of butter into four cupfuls of hasty pudding. Stir one well-beaten egg into the mixture, when cool enough not to curdle the egg. Vrhen nicely mixed, make into balls about tv\^o and a half inches in circumference, by rolling them in flour on the moulding board. Fry them in hot drippings like doughnuts. Serve hot.
BREAKFAST No. 113.
Indian Suet Cake. Baked Apple Sauce. Coffee,
Hot beef suet in some form was once a favorite remedy for consumption. For wasting diseases it was prescribed as we now prescribe cod liver oil. Suet cake was an excellent conveyance for getting this fat into the system, when in need of this ele- ment. When the theniiometer readings are low, then is the time to venture a delicious suet cake.
ANCESTRAL BREAKFASTS. 245
INDIAN SUET CAKE. Two ciipfuls of Indian meal. One cupful of flour. One teaspoonful of soda. One teaspoonful of salt. Three eggs. Half a cupful of sugar. Two cupfuls of rich sour milk. One cupful of finely chopped suet.
Add salt and soda to the dry meal and flour. Beat the sugar and yolks of eggs together. Add these wdth the milk to the meal and stir to a batter. Stir in the suet, and lastly the whites of eggs beaten till stiff. Bake in well buttered Washing- ton pie plates or shallow cake pans. When baked, draw a sharp knife through the upper crust only, in the shape you like. Serve hot. This mixture can be baked in muffin or gem pans.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Beef | 100g cooked | 250 |
| Sour Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pudding | not in our table | 0 |
| 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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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together124,287 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Flour + milktop 14% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together78,219 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together92,116 recipes
Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
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Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together106,462 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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