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Whipped Cream Sauce

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Why it works: Cinnamon and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,536 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Whipped Cream Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. One pint of rich cream sweetened to taste and flavored with wine ; skim off the top as it is whipped and place in sauce bowl, or it makes a very pretty dish to place it around the pudding.

  2. One cup of butter, two cups of light brown sugar, one cup of cream cooked together.

  3. Pastry for seven pies ; three uncovered ; three pints of Hour, one pound of butter, and a heaping cujd of lard ; wash the butter in ice-water to extract the salt ; set the pan in which you mix the pastry, in a pan of ice-water; mix very lightly the flour and lard and butter. — From My Mother's Cook Book.

  4. One pound of flour, sifted three or four times ; half pound lard, one-fourth pound of butter ; cut up the lard with the flour and mix it with icewater ; handle as little as possible with the hands ; roll thin and spread with thin slices of butter; then dredge with flour; roll up and slice in about three or four pieces ; roll out again, and again; spread with butter and dredge with the flour as before ; roll up and stand on end ; dredge with flour ; roll out thin and place in pans. — 3Irs. Dr. T. J. Smith, Fayette, Mo.

  5. MIXCEMEAT.

  6. Two pounds of lean, tender beef; after it is cooked and chopped, half pound of butter, one pound of suet chopped flne, three pounds of apples chopped flne, three pounds of raisins, seeded and cut, two pounds of cur- rants, half pound citron, one pound of flgs, two pounds of brown sugar, one ounce of cinnamon, half ounce of clover, half ounce of allspice, one-fourth ounce of mace, juice of four oranges, and three lemons, four nutmegs grated, one pint of good brandy, one gallon of sweet cider ; mix well and keep well covered. — Mrs. Mlttie C. Burton, Fayette, Mo.

  7. 76 THE MISSOURI COOK BOOK.

  8. " TEMPERANCE " MIXCEMEAT.

  9. Five pounds of meat cooked and chopped line, two pounds of suet, four pounds raisins seeded and cut, eiglit oranges, juice and pulp, four pounds of apples, half pound of citron, one ounce each of cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg, two pounds of brown sugar. — Mrs. D. 0. Morris, Fayette, Mo.

  10. MINCEMEAT.

  11. Two pounds of lean beef, boiled tender, and chopped fine ; two pounds of sugar, two pounds of raisins seed- ed and cut, two pounds of apples cut fine, one pound of citron, one tablespoon of powdered cinnamon, table- spoon of powdered cloves and one of ginger, one tea- spoon of grated nutmeg ; mix all together and set on the stove ; let simmer till well mixed ; when cold, add one quart of brandy. — Mrs. H. K. Glvens, Fayette, Mo.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1285Calories
43 gProtein
48 gFat
174 gCarbs

Counts 15 of 20 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 15 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Lard1 tbsp (12.8g)115
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Macenot in our table0
Brandynot in our table0
Cidernot in our table0
Meatnot in our table0
Pienot 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. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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 (cream, butter, sugar, flour, raisin, cinnamon, allspice):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

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

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