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Why it works: Sugar and molasses are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,225 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Marshm Allows

Ingredients

Directions

  1. "Dainty Dishes."

  2. Dissolve \ pound gum arabic in 1 nuart water ; add 1 pound best granulated sugar, and stir con=tantb' over a slow fire until about as thick as molasses. Add the stiffly beaten whites of 8

  3. CANDIES. 207

  4. eggs, flavor witli vanilla, and stir until it does not stick to the fingers. Pour into a pan dusted with cornstarch, and as it cools mark into squares. When taken out, dust all sides with cornstarch.

  5. MOLASSES CAXDY, NO. 1.

  6. Mrs. Kate Hoodlet.

  7. Put 1 pound granulated sugar in a saucepan with just enough water to dissolve it, and boil until it reaches the hard ball ; add 1 quart N. O. molasses, 2 tablespoons vinegar, and 1 tablespoon butter; boil again till the hard ball is reached. Take it off, stir in a small J teaspoon soda, and pour into buttered tins ; as soon as it begins to cool, pull until white. Moisten the hands with ice water or butter. Lay out in long sticks, braids or twists, and as it hardens, cut into short lengths.

  8. When taken from the stove flavor with the juice of 1 lemon.

  9. MOLASSES CANDY, NO. 2.

  10. Mrs. Edith W'incfordiicr.

  11. Boil 1 cup molasses with 2 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon vinegar, a little butter and vanilla for I't miimtes. Pour out onto buttered plates. When cool enough, pull till light, and break into small pieces.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

224Calories
1 gProtein
12 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Waternot 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. Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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 (sugar, vinegar, butter, molasses):

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

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

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