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Spiced Mountain Cake

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Why it works: Cinnamon and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,950 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Spiced Mountain Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. S eggs; J4 cup milk;

  2. 1}4 cups flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder.

  3. Cream the butter and sugar; add the yolks of 5 eggs, one at a time. Then the cinnamon and nutmeg. Add al- ternately ½ cup milk, lYz cups of flour, containing baking powder. Add the beaten whites of 2 eggs, Divide the batter into 3 jelly cake pans and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes. When baked spread with icing made of the whites of 3 eggs, beaten stiff, with 2 cups of pulverized sugar. Separate this into two parts, using the larger portion to cover layers, and the smaller for outside frosting. Add the juire of a lemon to inside icing and more sugar to pre- vent running. The lemon rind to be grated into outside frosting.

  4. — Mrs. M. D. Kaufmann.

  5. SPONGE CAKE AND PEACH MELBA,

  6. tablespoon boiling water; 1 teaspoon baking powder.

  7. For peach melba, bake in long kuchen pan, add straw- berry or raspberry sauce, then vanilla ice cream, peaches and sauce on top. Cut pieces of cake long enough to hold J^ peach.

  8. — Mrs. M. Kingsbacher.

  9. SPONGE CAKE (PASSOVER).

  10. 2 large cups granulated sugar; % cup chopped almonds.

  11. Beat yolks very light with sugar; add flour, lemon rind and almonds; lastly, whites beaten stiff, to which a pinch of salt is added.

  12. —Mrs. Wm. Frank. 150

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

702Calories
20 gProtein
18 gFat
114 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 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
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 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.

  1. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Cinnamon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cinnamon, sugar, flour, egg):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

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

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