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Why it works: Clove and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,400 recipes. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

Graham Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix well together one half coffee-cup of molasses, one fourth cup of butter, one half cup of milk, one and one half cups of Graham fiour, one <d^^, one half teaspoon of

  2. PUDDINGS. 67

  3. soda, one cap of raisins, or currants ; spices to taste. Steam four hours. — 3Irs. JY. 0. Jones, Syracuse, N. Y.

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  5. Three eggs, one teacup of sugar, one half teacup of butter, one half teacup of flour, one teacup of jams, or preserves, one teaspoon of soda, dissolved in three tea- spoons of sour milk ; cinnamon and nutmeg, to taste. Mix all together, and bake slowly in pudding pan. — Mrs. Rebecca Ford, Kansas Clty^ Mo.

  6. A SPICED APPL.E PIJDDIXG.

  7. Three teacupfuls of bread crumbs, three teacupfuls of apples, chopped, one teacupful of sugar, one quarter of a pound of raisins, perhaps a little citron, two table- spoonfuls of brand3^ one tablespoonful of ground cinna- mon, half teaspoonful of ground cloves, one teaspoonful of mace, two or three eggs, beaten separately. Cook the bread crumbs a few minutes with a pint of milk, before adding the other ingredients ; add the whites of the eggs the last tiling before baking. Bake half an hour, if the oven be quite hot. Serve with any sweet sauce. — From Mrs. Henderson's Cook Book.

  8. TAPIOC.i PlDI>I\0.

  9. Peel, core and cook, until quite done, six large apples ; drain otf the water ; and beat well with one tea- cup of sugar. Add the tapioca, which has been in soak several hours. Stir all well together. Flavor with nut- meg, or lemon. Bake in baking dish about three-quar- ters of an hour. Serve with cream, or solid sauce made of sugar and butter, beaten together until light, and fla- vored Willi wine. Peaches (fresh or canned) may be substituted, and are an improvement. — Mrs. E. Major, Fayette, Mo.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1222Calories
37 gProtein
36 gFat
193 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Sour Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Cloves1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Puddingnot in our table0
Macenot 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 Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the. 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. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

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

  3. Clove + raisintop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,070 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Raisin + molassestop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, milk, clove, raisin, coffee, molasses, egg):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. Macethe original

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

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