Name: Cream Candy
Ingredients: 2 cups of coffee c sugar; 4 cups of brown sugar; 2 spoonfuls of vinegar

Why it works: Sugar and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,806 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Cream Candy

Ingredients

2 cups of coffee c sugar
4 cups of brown sugar
2 spoonfuls of vinegar

Directions

Mrs. R. B. Day.
2 cups of coffee C sugar, or i pound of maple sugar; i cup of thin cream.
Boil slowly 25 minutes, and pour over nuts. Do not stir after it begins to boil.
HONEY TAFFY. Miss Marie L. Gushing. 4 cups of brown sugar; i cup of cream; 2 spoonfuls of vinegar; i spoonful of butter.
Boil until it hardens in water. Do not stir. Pull until of a very light color.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

52Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

13 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Coffee	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 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.

Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,806 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,344 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Coffee + vinegartop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together271 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).