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Caramel Sponge Cake

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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 ↓

Caramel Sponge Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 2 eggs beaten very light, i cup sugar, a little salt, ^ cup flour. Add these three ingredients a little at a time. ^2 cup flour additional, i teaspoon baking powder, i teaspoon lemon extract, a small half cup of boiling water. Frosting: — i cup sugar, 3 tablespoons water, boil until it hairs. Beat white of i egg stiff, stir into the frosting and spread on cake. Melt i square chocolate and spread on frosting.

  2. ANNA M. GRAVES.

  3. HATFIELD COOK BOOK. 117

  4. PLAIN CAKE,

  5. 1 egp^, 1 cup sugar, i large teas}>oon sour cream, i cup milk. Piuch of soda dissolved iu milk, 2 cups -flour, 2 teaspoous bakiug p-^wder. Flavor with uut- iiieg and vanilla. Bake in shallow tin as layer cake,

  6. MRS. D. W. WKLLS.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

582Calories
19 gProtein
6 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Waternot in our table0

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

By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church. 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).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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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