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Why it works: Wheat and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Ooen Muffins Oe Johnny-cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 16 TEE USEFUL COOK BOOK

  2. sweet milk. Mix dry ingredients, work butter into them, add milk, aad lastly the well-beaten egg. Mes. Laura Fuemak.

  3. GEAHAM MUFFINS. One and a half cups of graham flour ; half cup wheat flour ; butter size of an egg; 1 tablespoon of sugar; 1 egg; pinch salt; 1 cup of sweet milk; dry ingredients and mix thoroughly, add the milk and lastly the well- beaten egg. Bake in quick oven. Mes. C. A. Maetin.

  4. One egg; 1 tablespoon of butter; 1 tablespoon of sugar; 2^2. tear spoonfuls of baking powder; half teaspoon of salt; two-thirds of a piat of milk ; li^ pints of flour. Mes. Hattie Caepentee.

  5. Three cups of flour; 2 teaspoons of baking powder; 1 teaspoon of salt; 1 cup of sugar; 1 egg; 1 pint of sweet milk; 1 tablespoon of melted butter. This quantity makes 20 muffins. Mes. J. R. Updike.

  6. PAEKEE HOUSE ROLLS. Into two quarts of sifted flour rub 3 tablespoons of butter. In a hole in the center of the flour put 1 pint of cold boiled milk, half cup of sugar and half cup of yeast. Set at night ; in the morning mix the flour all in (but add no more) and let it rise until about 3 o'clock in the after- noon. Roll out and cut with a cake cutter, spread half with butter and fold together. Let them rise until very light, and brush over with milk 2 teaspoons baking powder. Rub the butter into the flour, add the other and sugar before putting in the oven. Bake half an hour.

  7. Mes. J. E. Updike.

  8. One pint scalded sweet milk. When nearly cool add 1 cake of Yeast Foam, a little salt, mix to a stiff batter, let rise over night. Knead in morning, set to rise until 2 P. M. Klnead, roll out 1 inch thick, spread with butter, cut out and fold over. Place one inch apart in pan and let get very light ; bake in quick oven. Spread a little butter on top and dust with sugar just before baking. Mes. Ltdia F. Hemingway.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

833Calories
27 gProtein
26 gFat
120 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

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
Wheatnot in our table0
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 Ithaca (N.Y.) First Baptist Church. Ladies Union. 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. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

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

  3. Flour + wheattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Wheat + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

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

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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