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Molasses Candy

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Why it works: Chocolate and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,466 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Molasses Candy

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 2 cups molasses, i cup sugar, i tablespoon butter, I tablespoon vinegar, i teaspoon soda.

  2. MRvS. EUROTAvS MORTON. CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.

  3. I cup rich sweet cream, i cup brown sugar, i cup white sugar, 7 tablespoons grated chocolate, i table- spoon corn starch stirred into the cream also soda the size of a pea. i tablespoon butter. Boil all these ingredients together except the chocolate and yi of the cream, stirring often to keep from burning. Boil half hour. Mix chocolate with cream adding little water if necessary. Draw the sauce pan to the back of the stove and stir well wliile adding the chocolate and cream, then let all cook together for fifteen min- utes or until it makes a hard glossy coat on the spoon. Pour into buttered tins and cut into squares.

  4. MRS. GEO. BARNES. MOLASSES TAFFY.

  5. % cup molasses, i cup white sugar, i tablespoon vinegar, 2 cups water. Butter size of an ^gg.

  6. MRS. GEO. BELDEN.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

375Calories
6 gProtein
14 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
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. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  2. Molasses + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,408 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Molasses + chocolatetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together618 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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