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Ohooolate Cookies

A chocolate and almond cookie with oats, flour, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Ohooolate Cookies

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chocolate dough

  1. Mix one half pound butter and lard with one pound sugar.

  2. Add one half pound baker's chocolate, scraped, and five eggs; separate whites of two eggs for frosting, beat yolks and whites together.

  3. Add the mixture to the butter and sugar, then add chocolate.

  4. Add vanilla, one half teaspoon salt, one teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon cinnamon, one quarter pound blanched almonds pounded, one and one half pounds flour, two thirds cup milk, and three teaspoonfuls baking powder mixed in the flour.

  5. Drop dough with spoon or bake in thin layer in pan.

Make the oatmeal cookies and bake

  1. Combine one cup sugar, one half cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoon baking powder, and two cups Quaker oats.

  2. Beat together thoroughly.

  3. Drop with a teaspoon onto buttered pan and bake about twenty minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1156Calories
35 gProtein
38 gFat
166 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Almond + oatstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Chocolate + almondtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,733 recipes

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

  5. Clove + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,605 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the cookies a tender crumb and moist texture.
Eggs
Bind the dough and set during baking, giving structure to the cookies.
Flour
Forms the gluten and starch network that gives the cookies their body.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking, helping the cookies rise and become lighter.
Sugar
Sweetens the dough and helps it brown and crisp at the edges.
Quaker oats
Add chewy texture and a hearty, toasty flavor to the cookies.

The step that matters

Beat together thoroughly. Creaming butter and sugar while beating traps air in the dough, and thorough mixing evenly distributes the eggs and leavening so the cookies rise uniformly.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, chocolate, almond, flour, milk, oats):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, chocolate, almond, flour, milk, oats. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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