Name: Bread Crumb Cake
Ingredients: 1 cup bread crumbs; 4 tablespoons chocolate; 1 tablespoon flour; 1 cup sugar; 1 tea- spoon baking powder; 6 eggs; 1 lemon

Why it works: Tea and lemon work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 610 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Bread Crumb Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Mix 1 cup bread crumbs ; 4 tablespoons chocolate ; 1 tea- spoon baking powder; J4 cup nuts, and 1 tablespoon flour. Cream 1 cup sugar with the yolks of 6 eggs; add this to the above mixture; then add the beaten whites of the eggs, and the juice of 1 lemon.
— Mrs. Edward M. Lazarus.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

749Calories

21 gProtein

15 gFat

129 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
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.

Tea + lemontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together610 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Chocolate + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together163 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,404 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, chocolate, flour, sugar, tea, egg):

Vanillafits better
Raisinfits better
Figfits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, chocolate, flour, sugar, tea, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.