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Brown Sugar Cookies

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By Friday club, Yarmouth, Mass. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Brown Sugar Cookies

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Brown Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Three eggs, two cups of brown sugar, one teaspoonful of vanilla, two teaspoonfuls of bakmg powder, two tablespoonfuls of butter melted after measuring, flour sufficient to roll out.

  2. Caroline R. Pulsifer.

  3. One-half cup butter, one-half cup lard, two en ids sugar, three eggs, one teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon saleratus, two teaspoons cream tartar, pinch of salt, flour to roll. Agnes Usher.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

409Calories
7 gProtein
35 gFat
14 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lard1 tbsp (12.8g)115
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
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 Friday club, Yarmouth, Mass. [from old catalog]. 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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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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  4. Vanilla + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Vanilla + gingertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,110 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 ginger

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

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

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