Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
The Missouri Cook Book
Ingredients
Directions
Puddings.— Continued.
Mountain Deer Pudding 68
Delmonico Pudding 69
Sponge Pudding 69
Orange Pudding 69
Corn Starch Pudding 69
"Dandy" Pudding. 70
Snow Pudding 70
Gelatine Pudding 70
Sauces for Pudding-s.
Orange Roley Poley 71
Brown Betty 71
Queen of Puddings 71
Rice Pudding 71
Cottage Pudding 72
Simple Pudding 72
Virginia Pudding 72
ButterSauce 73
Butter Sauce with Eggs 73
A Plainer Sauce 73
Wine Sauce 73
Foam Sauce 74
Cream Sauce 74 '
Strawberry Sauce 74
Cold Cream Sauce 74
Plain Cream Sauce 74
Whipped Cream Sauce 74
Mincemeat 75
"Temperance" Mincemeat 76
Mincemeat 7^
Mock Mincemeat.. 76
Lemon Pies 76
Lemon Pie... 77
Lemon Pie 7^
Transparent Pie yS
Chess Pie 7^
Cream Pie 7^
A Nice Filling for Pie 79
Molasses Pie 79
Apple Custard Pie 79
Green Apple Pie 79
Baked Apple Dumplings 79
Baked Apple Roll 80
Apple Cobbler 80
Dried Apple Pie 80
Fried Apple Pie 80
Cherry Roll 81
Tiffey Pudding 81
Pie Plant Pie 81
Strawberry Cream Pie 81
Irish Potato Pie 82
Sweet Potato Pie 82
Pumpkin Pie 82
Fruit Pudding 83
Cocoanut Pie 83
Pie for Dyspeptics 83
Xice Desserts.
Russian Cream 84
Velvet Cream 84
Charlotte Russe 84
Sponge Roll 85
Blanc Mange 85
Ambrosia 85
Apple Meringue 85
Apple Float 85
lien's Nest 86
Orange Ice 86
Pine Apple 86
Tutti Frutti 86
Chocolate Cream 87
Peach Ice-Cream 87
BananaCream 7
Ice-Cream 87
Orange Ice 88
Strawberry Ice 88
Pine-Apple Ice
Lemon Ice 88
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Sauce | not in our table | 0 |
| Pie | 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.
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.
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Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,787 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together15,338 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,227 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Sauce + lemontop 30% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,598 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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 lemon
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, butter, cream):
- Coconutfits better
- Strawberryfits better
- Vanillafits better
- Lemonthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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