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Cheese Cakes

Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Cheese Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put 1 spoonful rennet in 1 quart rtew milk; keep near the fire, and when the curd forms, drain oiT the whey through a sieve. Rub into the curd 4 tablespoons powdered sugar, ^ cup butter, 1 grated nutmeg, and the yolk of 1 egg ; beat well, add 1 whole egg and beat again. Mix in ^ pound dried currants, or the grated rind and juice of 1 lemon. Line patty pans with a rich paste, half fill, dust with sugar and bake.

  2. CHOCOLATE PIE, NO. 1.

  3. Mrs. Charles Breeze.

  4. Put 2 cups of milk on to boil in a double boiler. Add 3 table- spoons chocolate or cocoa, J cup sugar, butter the size of a small egg, 2 tablespoons cornstarch dissolved in a little cold milk. Stir well until it begins to thicken, then add the yolks of 3 eggs well beaten, cook a moment longer, take from the fire, add 2 teaspoons vanilla, and pour into a freshly baked pie crust. Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs with 3 tablespoons sugar, spread over the pie, and return to the oven to brown.

  5. CHOCOLATE PIE, NO. 2.

  6. Mrs. Frank Auker.

  7. Mix 4 tablespoons unsweetened, grated chocolate wi-th 2 table- spoons cornstarch and a little cold water. Bring the rest of 1 pint water to the boil, stir in tlie mixture, and cook till thick. Sweeten

  8. PASTRY. 193

  9. with 6 tablespoons sugar, take from the tire, add vanilla to taste, and the yolks of 2 eggs well beaten. Pour into a freshly baked crust, and spread on a meringue of the whites of the eggs, and i cup sugar. Brown.

  10. CINNAMON ROLLS, NO. L

  11. Mrs. Thomas Ewing.

  12. Roll out a sheet of pie paste J inch thick; cut in pieces ^ inches square ; spread with sugar, cinnamon and bits of butter ; fold over, and pinch the edges together all around. Prick the tops and bake in a slow oven.

  13. CINNAMON ROLLS, NO. 2.

  14. Miss Johanna Feeney.

  15. Roll out pie paste to ^ inch in thickness; spread with sugar, bits of butter and cinnamon ; roll up tiglit. press the edge down, and cut in pieces about an inch long. Bake in a slow oven.

  16. COCO AN UT PIE, NO. 1.

  17. Grate 1 cocoanut ; take its weiglit in sugar. J its weight in but- ter, 5 eggs, the milk of the nut and 1 pint milk, grated peel and juice of 1 lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar together, add the milk and melt the butter and put in. Line 4 pie pans with paste, fill and bake.

  18. COCOANUT PIE, NO. 2.

  19. Mrs. A. H. Flowers.

  20. Put 1 quart milk and- 1 pint water on to boil, reserving enough to wet 3 tablespoons flour ; sweeten to taste : beat the yolks of 3 eggs light, stir in the flour and water, and add to the boiling milk ; stir till smooth, then add the most of h box cocoanut. Have 3 freshly baked crusts, fill, cover witli a meringue of the whites of egg beaten stiff with a little sugar, sprinkle with the rest of the cocoanut, and brown in the oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1024Calories
29 gProtein
36 gFat
143 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Waternot in our table0
Pienot 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.

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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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar, vanilla, flour, nutmeg, egg, chocolate):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, vanilla, flour, nutmeg, egg, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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