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 ↓
Crullers and Cookies
Ingredients
Directions
Mrs. Samuel Stephan.
Beat sugar, yolks, and butter until light; add milk, flavor- ing and beaten whites ; add flour and baking powder. Roll, cut thick, and fry in hot lard.
Mrs. Geo. Bachman.
6 cups flour. Butter size of a walnut.
Mrs. John R. Woods.
1 cup sugar. Level teaspoon soda.
1 cup sour cream. 2 level teaspoons baking
2 eggs. powder. Butter size of a walnut.
Beat eggs with sugar. Add enough flour to make a soft dough.
Cakes. 247
Mrs. A. L. Trine.
1^2 cups sugar. 1 heaping tablespoon but-
Cook potatoes fresh ; add butter while hot ; mix well ; have eggs well beaten ; stir until very light ; then add milk, baking powder, and flour to make dough to handle well.
Mrs. W. Reaves.
2 eggs. 3 cups flour. Lard size of an egg. 1 teaspoon soda.
Dissolve soda in milk.
Mrs. Belle Line Hiteshue.
2 cups buttermilk. or crisco.
Beat all well; add enough flour to make soft dough; cut in rounds; fry in deep fat. Slices of potatoes will cool fat, and clear it also.
Mrs. Carl Andrews.
2 cups mashed potatoes. Butter size of hickory nut.
2 eggs. tie grated nutmeg.
Work in enough flour to make soft dough ; roll out, cut, and fry in hot lard.
Mrs. William Hitchcock.
Yi nutmeg.
Beat eggs, sugar, and butter together; add milk, spices, and flour ; put another cup of flour on molding board, turn dough out on it, and knead until stiff enough to roll out a quarter of an inch thick; cut with round cutter; drop in hot lard and cook. Dredge in powdered sugar while warm.
Mrs. Condon, Trenton, Ohio.
Mash potatoes as for tahl< shortening.
Salt and nutmeg.
if they are seasoned, do not use
Mrs. Emma Smith, Mrs. A. W. Brown, Mrs. Lou Beauchamp, Miss Cora L0110-.
4 heaping teaspoons baking- powder. Flour to make a soft dough.
Mash potatoes and beat to a cream; add other ingredients.
This can be mixed while potatoes are warm.
ginger can be added ; the spice will not be detected, and crullers will not absorb grease. If convenient add chicken fat to lard ; the flavor will be improved.
Cakes. 249
DOUGHNUTS.
Mrs. R. S. Woodruff.
1 cup melted butter and A little salt,
Mix in a very soft dough; let it rise. Then knead down and let it rise again. Then knead and roll out ; fry in hot lard, and sugar while warm.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Sour Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Lard | 1 tbsp (12.8g) | 115 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Yogurt | 170g plain Greek | 100 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Ginger | 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together19,187 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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Nutmeg + potatotop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,052 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together18,623 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,721 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked 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
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, nutmeg, milk, cream, buttermilk, vanilla):
- Arrowrootfits better
- Sweet potatofits better
- Beetrootfits about as well
- Potatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, nutmeg, milk, cream, buttermilk, vanilla. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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