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Devil's Food

Why it works: Vanilla and milk 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 ↓

Devil's Food

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 2 Clips sugar, V- cup butter, y^ cup sour milk, 2 ei^ps ; mix to- gether; 1/4 cake chocolate grated, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 cup boiling water; mix together; add 2 cups tiour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon Royce's vanilla. Mrs. F. II. Gruninger.

  2. DELICATE CAKE (WHITE )

  3. 3 cups sifted Mt*ur, 1 ' ^ cups sugar, 7 eggs, whites only. 1 teacup sweet milk, 2 tablespoons butter. 2 teaspoons baking poAvder. 1 tea- spoon Royce's \anilia; beat ])utter and sugar to a cream; add milk and eggs Avell beaten: then flavoring; mix with this veiy shnvly. the flour in wliicli leaking powder has been sifted; bake in quick oven.

  4. Mrs. W. A. Hall, I\Irs. W. Watson.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1000Calories
29 gProtein
35 gFat
138 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Waternot in our table0
Cakenot 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 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.

  1. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  5. Vanilla + teatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together170 recipes

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

Vanilla and sugar 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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