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English Breakfast Muffins

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Why it works: Milk and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

English Breakfast Muffins

Ingredients

Directions

  1. One pint sweet milk, or half milk and half water, one teaspoonful salt; stir batter with white flour; set away anywhere till it gets sour, or it smells like yeast. Two days will make it right in warm weather, then at breakfast time add what sweet milk and water (or either alone) will make enough for your family ; also one tablespoonful of sugar, a little salt, and one teaspoonful of saleratus in boiling water ; stir to a batter with white flour, Graham or corn flour, or a mixture of any of the three kinds. Leave one cup or more of the batter each time to raise the next lot with.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

198Calories
8 gProtein
8 gFat
25 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 Goff, May Perrin, [from old catalog] ed. 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. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

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