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Sponge Layer Cake

Why it works: Sugar and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sponge Layer Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 4 eggs, 1^2 cups sugar, ^4 cup cold water, 3 teaspoon^ baking powder, 3 -mall cups flour. Flavor with vanilla, makes 3 lay^Ts, Use an}^ kind of cake filling.

  2. MRS. A. H. GRAVKSs

  3. COLD WATER Sl'OXGE CAKE,

  4. 3 eggs beaten two minutes, 1% cups ^ugar beaten into the eggs for five minutes, i cup of flour in which 2 teaspoons of baking powder have been mixed. Bent all together three minutes. }4 teacnp of cold water beaten five minutes. A little salt, i more cup of flour. Beat all together three minutes.

  5. MRvS. CELIA R. WELLS.

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

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

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

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