Name: Lemon Sauce for Fruit Cake Recipe
Ingredients: 2 cups boiling water; 1 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon butter; 2 tablespoons butter; 4 tablespoons brown sugar; a small piece of cinna- mon bark; 3 heaping teaspoons corn starch; 1 lemon; 2 eggs

Why it works: Corn and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,927 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lemon Sauce for Fruit Cake Recipe

Ingredients

Directions

2 cups boiling water, 1 cup sugar, 3 heaping teaspoons corn starch, 1 tablespoon butter, juice of 1 lemon. If hard sauce is used put a little hard sauce in the center of your pudding and around it the above sauce made without the butter. Mrs. W. D. McLaren.
142 THE WAKREN COOK BOOK
MARYLAND SAUCE
Cream well 2 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons brown sugar and yolks of 2 eggs ; add Yo cup peach syrup and a small piece of cinna- mon bark; stir over hot water until it thickens.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

696Calories

20 gProtein

18 gFat

112 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [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.

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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.

Corn + lemontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,927 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Butter + corntop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,345 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,227 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).