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Mattre D'hotel Butter

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Why it works: Butter and grape are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,028 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Mattre D'hotel Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix on a cold soup plate, 3 ounce butter, \ teaspoon chopped parsley, \ teaspoon chopped chervil, h teaspoon lemon juice, 1 salt- spoon salt and h saltspoon pepper. Keep in a cool place till wanted.

  2. MINT JELLY, NO. 1.

  3. Mrs. Frank Connell.

  4. Tear (> large stalks of mint, pour over them 1 pint boiling water, and let stand on the back of the stove for 15 minutes. Strain, extracting all the juice, and return to the stove adding IJ envelopes of powdered gelatin, 1 small cup sugar, and the juice of a lemon. Strain and mould.

  5. SAUCES FOR MEATS, FISH AND VEGETABLES. lO'S MINT JELLY, NO. 2.

  6. Mrs. Frank Connell.

  7. Wash 3 quarts grapes fully grown but still perfectly green. Put tbcm over the fire with 3 pints boiling water and cook 15 minutes, breaking and mashing with a wooden spoon. Turn into a jelly bag and strain. Measure the juice and return to the kettle with 3 sprigs of freshly bruised spearmint. Cook 20 minutes, skim, remove mint, and for each cup of juice, add a scant cup of hot sugar. Stir until it boils up, and turn into glasses. A little green vegetable coloring should be added, or a few drops of extract of mint.

  8. Apples may be used instead of the grapes, witli a little lemon juice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

213Calories
1 gProtein
12 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Spearmintnot 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 Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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.

Explore the science

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 + grapetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,028 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Grape + spearminttop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

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

  5. Spearmint + sugartop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the spearmint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, grape, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Spearmintthe original

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

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