Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓
For a March Tea
Ingredients
Directions
Crackers (oatmnl, Eraham and Ihilt.)
Whole Wheat Bread. Date Bread.
Tapioca PaddlDR. Warm Maple Sogar
Sanafraa Tea. RECIPES.
Nut Sandwiches. — Grind Englisli walnuts, Iiickory nuts or pecans fine, and add oue-tbird as much celery cliopped fine. Add sufficient salad dressins to spread easily and place between slices or bread and butter.
Celery Sandwiches. — Chop fine several stocks of celery {the heart and all) and add sufficient salad dressing so it will spread easily. Cut in fancy shapes. All sandwiches should be kept moist by wringing out a nap- kin in cold water and placing over them.
Parsnip Croquettes. — Boil and mash par- snips fine. Then to .each pint of them add a teaspoonful of salt, two tables poonfuls of melted butter, a dash of pepper two table- spoonfuls of milk. Mix well over the fire, and when smoking hot add a thoroughly beaten fresh epg. Spread the mixture on a dish to cool, and take the nut of an English walnut, an almond or a pine nut, and roll around it the parsnip pulp until you have a good-sized nut. Boll in egg and cracker dust, fry a light brown, in plentyof butter, and serve hot.
Apple and Banana Salad.— When ready to serve, slice the apples and bananas. Mix well with a mayonnaise dressing, which can be prepared the day before, if necessary. Serve on the crisp, white leaves of lettuce. Do not allow this salad to stand long after preparing, as the apple and banana will both tnrn dark. The fruit should be placed in a very cold place -in the early momitig, as well as the lettuce, so that all may he crisp and cold.
From Mn. Haviland, New Vork.
Date Bread. — Add chopped dates to graham sponge just before forming into loaves. 1897
From Hln A. Nichola, Pbiladelphla.
Tapioca Pudding. — 1 cnp of coarse ground tapioca, ^ cup of sngar, i pt. of milk, z eggs, well beaten. Stir all together and flavor with nutmeg or lemon. Best to soak tapioca in water over night.
Warm Maple Sugar. — Take a cake of maple sugar and break it up, put in a porcelain di.sh with a little cold water and boil slowly until it waxes. Serve while hot and stir as yon partake.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| 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.
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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 + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together13,015 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Milk + nutmegtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together14,685 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Butter + nutmegtop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together24,377 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together85,593 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the nutmeg
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, milk, butter):
- Cinnamonfits about as well
- Parsleyfits about as well
- Nutmegthe original
- Thymefits about as well
Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, milk, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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