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Apple Sacce Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Ithaca (N.Y.) First Baptist Church. Ladies Union · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Apple Sacce Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. (Without butter or eggs.) One cup of sugar; 1% cups of apple sauce (thick) ; 2 teaspoons of soda, dissolved in apple sauce; '2 1/2 cups of flour, measured before sifting;

  2. 2 tablespoons of molasses; spu-cs and fruit to taste.

  3. ^Trs. Laura Fuemax.

  4. One cup of brown sugar; half cup of butter; 1 cup of apple sauce prepared for the table; 1 teaspoon of cinnamon; lialf teaspoon of cloves; 1 teaspoon of soda sifted with flour; 2 cups of flour; 1 cup of raisins.

  5. ^riis. Hanson Smith.

  6. Three cups of apple sauce. Stow as for table use, mash fine ; 1 cup of butter; 2 cups of sugar; 4 cups of flour; 2 teaspoons of soda. Fruit:

  7. 3 cups of raisins, citron and nuts if desired. Minnie S. Willis.

  8. THE USEFUL COUK BOOK 23

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

827Calories
14 gProtein
13 gFat
166 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Apple Sauce1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6

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. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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 apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, molasses, butter, sauce, cinnamon, raisin):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applethe original
  4. Orangefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, molasses, butter, sauce, cinnamon, raisin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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