Name: Snow Balls
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon sugar; 4 cup flour; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 whole egg; 2 yolks of eggs; three little cuts in center; 1 egg

Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Snow Balls

Ingredients

Directions

1 whole egg; 1 tablespoon sugar and a little salt.
Mix enough flour in to make like a noodle dough; work well. Roll out thin ; cut in squares, and in each square make three little cuts in center. Bake in swimming fat. When done, sprinkle with sugar.
— Mrs. Louis Schwarz.
?4 cup flour; 1 tablespoon olive oil;
Yi cup milk; J4 teaspoon salt;
Mix batter, adding milk gradually to the flour, then the egg and the olive oil. Whip with an egg beater until perfectly blen- ded. Heat the timbale iron in hot fat and dip it into the batter, then into the fat until the dough is brown.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

701Calories

19 gProtein

20 gFat

108 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49

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.

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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.

Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together106,462 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + olivetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together16,871 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Olive + eggtop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,340 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).