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Cushman Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio) · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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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 81,283 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cushman Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mrs. W. A. J.

  2. Two cups flour, one cup Indian meal, four table- spoons sugar, two teaspoons cream tartar ; mix and add Wie egg, two teacups sweet milk, one tablespoon melted butter, one teaspoon soda ; then bake.

  3. CORN MUSH,

  4. Mrs. W. A. J.

  5. Put fresh water in a kettle to boil, salt to siiit the taste ; when it begins to boil stir in the meal, let- ting it sift through the fingers slowly to prevent lumps ; at the last it may be added a little faster ; keep adding until it is as thick as can be conven- iently stirred with one hand ; set it in the oven, in the kettle, let it bake an hour, and it will be thoroughly cooked. It takes corn meal so long .to cook thoroughly that it is very tedious to boil until done without let- ting it burn. If you wish to fry it cold for a delicious

  6. breakfast relish, add while making it about a pint of flour to three quarts of mush.

By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio). 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 124,287 recipes mention both: they likely 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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