Name: Cream Cake
Ingredients: one cup of sugar; three tablespoonfuls of water; half cups of flour; one pint of sweet milk; three eggs; one heaping tea- spoonful of yeast powder; two eggs; three tiiblespoonfuls of flour stirred in a little cold milk; one tablespoonfiil of butter

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 ↓

Cream Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Three eggs, one cup of sugar, three tablespoonfuls of water, one and a half cups of flour, one heaping tea- spoonful of yeast powder.
LA YER CAKES. 103
FllliRg. — Two eggs, one cup of sugar, one pint of sweet milk, three tiiblespoonfuls of flour stirred in a little cold milk. Put eggs, sugar and milk together and when at boiling point, stir in thickening, and boil until stift' enough to drop from spoon without running. Take off, and stir into this one tablespoonfiil of butter. Flavor with vanilla. — Mih. Nannie Lay, Jefferson City, Mo.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

833Calories

27 gProtein

26 gFat

120 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Water	not in our table	0

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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).