Name: Filled Tarts
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 3 tablespoons cream; 2 tablespoons milk; 1 cup chopped walnuts; 1 cup raisins; 2 eggs; 1 lemon

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Filled Tarts

Ingredients

Directions

1 lb. flour; 1 cup sugar;
2 eggs; 2 teaspoons baking powder; J^ lb butter; Rind of 1 lemon.
Mix and roll; cut into squares, and fill with following fill- ing; yi lb. brown sugar; butter, size of egg; 2 tablespoons milk. Boil until thick ; then add 1 cup chopped walnuts ; 1 cup raisins ;
little vanilla. When cold, fill.
— Chicago.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

882Calories

29 gProtein

23 gFat

141 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12

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

By Kaufman, Nettie M. 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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Walnut + lemontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,149 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Walnut + raisintop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together647 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,481 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Raisin + lemontop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,742 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream, milk, raisin, egg, lemon):

Almondfits better
Pistachiofits better
Chestnutfits better
Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, milk, raisin, egg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.