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White Cake

Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

White Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. One pound of sugar, one pound of flour, three-fourths of a pound of butter, the whites of sixteen eggs, one teaspoon of Price's baking powder.— /Mm Georgie Carson, Fayette, Mo.

  2. WHITE €AKE.

  3. Four cups of white sugar, whites only of sixteen eggs, one even cup of butter, half cup of sweet milk, one tea- spoonful baking powder, five even cups of Hour, sifted five times ; cream butter and sugar, add a little of the whites, which must be well beaten ; then add the liour, then milk, after stirring well, add the baking powder, which must be sifted lightly into the batter ; flavor with almond and use cut-loaf sugar. — Mrs. Lucy A. Boone, Jefferson City, Mo.

  4. GOIiI> CAKE.

  5. Yolks only of sixteen eggs, two even cups of sugar, one and a half cups of butter, one cup of sweet milk, four even cups of Hour, two teaspoons of baking powder. Cream butter, beat yolks lightly with sugar, add eggs; beat until light; add Hour and powder, then milk; put paper in pans and grease well. The two recipes make four cakes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

755Calories
21 gProtein
21 gFat
120 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cakenot 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.

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

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

  2. Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

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

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Flour and butter 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

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