Name: Telegram Conservation Cook Book
Ingredients: 1 head lettuce 0500 cost $0; 2 package dates; 1 small loaf raisin brown bread; 1 egg $0; 15 min; 4 lbs; 3 cents; 3 lbs; salt; pepper

Why it works: Lettuce and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,037 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Telegram Conservation Cook Book

Ingredients

Directions

1-6 lb. (12 T) coffee at 30c lb.. $0.0500
Cream 0500
12 t sugar 0108
Cost $0.1108
Stuffed Dates.
i/2 package dates (12) $0.0750
V4, lb. nuts to stuff 0625
Powdered sugar to roll 0052
$0.1427 Total Costs.
Vegetable Soups $0.0600
6 saltines 0240
Home canned picallili 0500
Celery hearts 1000
Steamed salmon with Turkish
Pilau 2028
Roast chicken with gravy and
dressing 1.0393
Cranberry sauce 0917
Baked potatoes with cheese... .0843
Creamed cauliflower 1729
V2 loaf white bread 0500
1 small loaf raisin brown bread .1116
Butter 1000
Banana and walnut salad 2820
Apple pie with whipped cream .2862
Coffee, 1-6 lb 0500
Sugar, 12 t 0108
Cream 0500
Stuffed dates 1427
Wood heat, 3 hrs 0058
Parsley to garnish meat 0000
Total $2.9941
— Mrs. W. E. Metzger, 929 Pacific st.
Third Prize — For the menu that gives the most and best food, with the most courses and little extras, for the money, was won by the following
MENU BY MRS. RINGO.
Consomme a la Royale Croutons.
Celery. Mixed Sweet Pickles.
Chicken en Casserole Giblet Gravy.
Mashed Potatoes. Scalloped Corn.
Currant Jelly.
Prune Salad Whipped Cream Dressing.
Mock Lemon Pie.
Raisins. Coffee. Mixed Nuts.
Consomme a la Royale.
6 c stock 1200
1 t salt 0003
V2 t onion juice 0001
V2 t pepper 0041
Gas, oven 15 min. (M> use) 0032
Beat egg and add salt, pepper and onion juice. Pour into small cup and place in pan of hot water and cook until set. Turn out and cut into dice and serve in the hot stock. Croutons are made by toasting stale bread cut into cubes.
Chieken en Casserole. Cost
4 lbs. hen $1.0000
1 T flour 0009
1/2 c lard 0750
1 t salt 0003
Gas to fry y2 hour 0057
1 c milk 0268
1 c water 0000
Gas 2 hours in oven 0510
Cost to serve six $1.1597
Or 19 1-3 cents each.
After washing and drawing the hen, joint it, roll in the flour and fry a golden brown, salt it. Put the re- maining drippings away for gravy next day. Place the pieces of chicken in a casserole or baking dish, pour the milk over and add water, if nec- essary, to cover. Simmer in oven two hours and serve in same dish. There will be gravy from the milk, to which add the cooked, chopped giblets.
Mashed Potatoes. Cost.
3 lbs. potatoes $0.0600
2 t salt 0006
1/2 c whole milk 0134
Gas, 15 min 0029
$0.0769 Sealloped Corn.
Cost. 1 can corn $0.1500
4 crackers 0160
% c rich milk 0134
1 t salt 0003
14 t pepper 0020
Cost $0.1817
Put the corn, seasoning and crushed cracker crumbs in a baking dish and pour the milk over top. This is baked in the oven with the chicken and takes no extra fuel.
Prune Salad.
% lb Oregon prunes $0.0375
% c nut meats 0312
1 head lettuce 0500
Cost $0.1187
Wash and soak prunes until tender. Pit and stuff with walnuts. Shred the lettuce. Make a nest and put even number of prunes in. Serve on indi- vidual plates with dressing and pass saltines.
Whipped Cream Dressing.
% c cream, whipped $0.0500
iy2 T sugar 0039
1 T lemon juice 0125
% t mustard 0041
$0.0705 Whip the cream stiff and fold in other ingredients.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

695Calories

21 gProtein

7 gFat

138 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Raisin	1 small box (28g)	85
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Date	1 date (24g) medjool	66
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Lettuce	1 cup shredded (36g)	5
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.

By Chapel, Inie Gage, Mrs. [from old catalog]. 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.

Lettuce + peppertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,037 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Dates + breadtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together100 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Dates + raisintop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together358 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Lettuce + raisintop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together29 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, dates, bread, egg, pepper):

Figfits better
Cherryfits better
Lemonfits better
Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, dates, bread, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.