Name: Cake and Pies
Ingredients: 34 apple sauce cake; 35 callas; 35 caramel cake; 37 corn starch cake; 39 lemon tie filling; 39 maple walnut cream cake; 40 molasses drop cakes molasses doughnuts nut layer cake; 50 german tapioca pudding; 50 oatmeal pudding orange sago peach tapioca pudding

Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cake and Pies

Ingredients

Directions

Angel Cakelets 34
Angel Cake 34
Angel Cake 34
Apple Sauce Cake, Frosting 35
Callas . . . .* : 35
Caramel Cake,. Filling and
Frosting 35
Cocoanut Fruit Cake 36
Cocoa Sponge Cake 36
Cocom Doughnuts 36
Chocolate Cake 36
Chocolate Pie 36
Coffee Spice Cake 37
Corn Starch Cake with Choco- late Nut Frosting 37
Dutch Apple Cake 37
Fruit Cake 38
Fruit Cake 38
Gingerbread 39
Ginger Tuffs 39
Lemon Tie Filling., 39
Hamlets 39
Maple Walnut Cream Cake with Maple Frosting 40
Molasses Drop Cakes
Molasses Doughnuts
Nut Layer Cake with Choco- late Nut Frosting
Oatmeal Drop Cookies
Orange Shortcake with Boiled
Orange and Pineapple Short- cake
Quick Loaf Cake
Raisin Pie
Spice Cake
Spice Cake
Spice Cake -
Sour Milk Doughnuts
Sponge Cake
Squash Pie
Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake (Indi- vidual)
Strawberry Shortcake
Tea Cake, Filling
Apple Roll, Lemon Sauce.... Apricot and Tapioca Trifle . . .
Boiled Cracker Pudding
Caramel Tapioca Cream
Baked Indian Pudding
Baked Tapioca Pudding
Banana and Tapioca Char- lotte
Caramel Pudding
Cherry Tapioca Pudding
Coffee Tapioca Cream
Coffee Cream
Custard Indian Pudding
Fig and Ginger Pudding
Fruit and Tapioca Pudding . . 50
German Tapioca Pudding .... 50
Oatmeal Pudding
Orange Sago
Peach Tapioca Pudding ......
Prune Sago Pudding
Raspberry Whip
Rhubarb Tapioca
Rice and Tapioca Pudding . . .
Sago Pudding
Strawberry Tapioca
Strawberry Sponge
Tapioca and Macaroon Cream
Tapioca with Apples
Tapioca Sponge
Thanksgiving Pudding
Virginia Pone

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1024Calories

23 gProtein

13 gFat

209 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Oat	1/2 cup dry (40g)	154
Apple Sauce	1 medium (182g)	95
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Peach	1 medium (150g)	59
Molasses	1 tbsp (20g)	58
Maple Syrup	1 tbsp (20ml)	52
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cake	not in our table	0
Nut	not in our table	0
Pudding	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By D. & L. Slade Co. 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.

Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,230 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Corn + walnuttop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together349 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lemon + walnuttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,149 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, corn, lemon, walnut, cream, molasses, orange):

Limefits better
Figfits better
Coconutfits better
Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, corn, lemon, walnut, cream, molasses, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.