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Cream Puffs

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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cream Puffs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1 cup hot water, 1 cup butter. Boil these together, then stir in while boiling 1 cup flour. Let mixture cool and then add 3 eggs not beaten. Mix well and drop on buttered tins.

  2. CREAM FOR PUFFS:— 2 cups milk, \ cup sugar, 1 egg, 2 tbs. flour. Stir all together and stir into milk while boiling. Flavor with vanilla. Add pinch salt. When cakes are cool open on side and fill. Mrs. Arthur Mather.

  3. MOLASSES SNAPS. 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 tsp. soda, 1 tbs. vinegar, (vinegar on soda.) Mix stiff with flour, roll thin and bake in hot oven. Mrs. Charles H. Burwell.

  4. POUND COOKIES. 1 lb. flour, \ lb. butter, \ lb. sugar, yolks of 3 eggs, 3 tbs. jjream, flavoring. Mix all together at once. Roll out very thin. Bake a small sheet of dough and crumple up with *;ugar to sprinkle on top of cookies before baking them.

  5. Mrs. Oscar Lund.

  6. CHOCOLATE DROPS. 1 cup light brown sugar, J cup melted butter, 2 sq. chocolate (melted), % cup sweet milk, 1 cup chopped nuts, 1 egg, § tsp. soda, 1\ cups flour, 1 tsp. vanilla. Drop with tsp. on buttered tins. Frost with chocolate icing.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

891Calories
27 gProtein
26 gFat
135 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Nutsnot 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 Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [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.

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

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

  2. Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + nutstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 nuts

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Nutsthe original

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

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