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Lemon Obeam

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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Lemon Obeam

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Twelve eggs, six lemons, one pint water, one pound sugar. Grate and squeeze the lemons and mix with the water ; beat the yolks and sugar, then the whites, add the water and lemons. Set on the fire in a double boiler and stir until it begins to thicken. Serve the next day in glass cups.

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  3. COOK BOOK. 71

  4. 8TRAWBBB&Y O&BAM.

  5. Mash one quart of berries and mix with one cup of sugar. Let them stand until the sugar is all dissolved and then strain. Soak one quarter of a box of gelatine in one quarter of a cup of cold water and add one quarter of a cup of boiling water and strain into the fruit juice. Beat until it thickens, then add one pint of whipped cream, and mould.

  6. SWISS PINBAPPIiE OBBAM.

  7. Soak one half box gelatine in one half cup cold water. Heat one can sliced pineapple cut in small pieces, dissolve gelatine in it, add three fourths cup sugar, one tablespoon lemon juice* Chill in pan of ice water, stirring until it begins to stiffen. Then fold in the whip from three cups cream. (If cream is thick, use half milk). Chill and serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

339Calories
15 gProtein
19 gFat
29 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
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
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 Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River. 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.

Explore the science

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 + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream, egg, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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