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Graham Gems

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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

Graham Gems

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1 tablespoonfuls of sugar; i cup of sour milk; i cup of Graham flour; ^ cup wheat flour; i ^^'g; 2 tablespoonfuls melted shortening; i teaspoonful of soda; a pinch of salt.

  2. Sweet milk and i teaspoonful of baking powder may be substituted for sour milk and soda.

  3. Demand and Oet— Virot's Perfumes and Extracts.

  4. 48 fre;donia cook book.

  5. INDIAN MKAI. GEMS. Mrs. Joseph Brown.

  6. 2 eggs; 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter; 2 tablespoonfuls granulated sugar; 2 cups sweet milk; i cup Indian meal; xyi cups flour; 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder.

  7. Beat the eggs thoroughly; add butter, sugar and milk, then meal, flour and baking powder. Bake in buttered gem-pans about 20 minutes.

  8. Mrs. E. D. Clark.

  9. I pint of milk; 3^ cups of flour; 4 teaspoonfuls of sugar;

  10. I tablespoonful melted lard; i tablespoonful melted butter;

  11. a little salt; yi cake of compressed yeast, dissolved in cold

  12. lyct the batter rise over night. In the morning add 2 eggs, I teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in waflQle irons, heated and well greased.

  13. Mrs. M. M. Fenner.

  14. 3 eggs; I quart of sour milk; i teaspoonful soda; a little salt; 3 tablespoonfuls melted butter.

  15. Beat the yolks thoroughly, stir in the melted butter and soda, and lastly the whites beaten stiff. Use flour to make stiffer than for pan-cakes. Bake in waffle iron.

  16. I quart sweet milk and 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder can be substituted for tlie sour milk and soda.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

833Calories
27 gProtein
26 gFat
120 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Fredonia, N.Y. Trinity parish guild, comp. [from old catalog]. 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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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