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Miriam Geiger Young

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Why it works: Milk and vanilla 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 ↓

Miriam Geiger Young

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 130 CLUB HOUSE COOK BOOK

  2. Stewed Apples and Rice — Peel and scoop out the cores of some fine, russet apples, simmer in clarified sugar until stewed. Blanch your rice and boil in milk. Keep it firm by adding milk gradually, sweeten with sugar, stir in a pinch of salt. When done, pour into a dish, place the apples on the rice; fill all spaces between the fruit with the rice, and brown in oven. Serve very hot.

  3. Huckleberry Pudding — One cup of sugar, }i cup of but- ter, 1 cup of sweet milk, 4 eggs, 1 pint of huckleberries, 3>4 cups of flour, 3>'2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake and serve with brandy sauce.

  4. Brandy Sauce — Three-fourths cup of granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon corn starch, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, 2 cups of boiling water. Work butter and sugar together, mix in corn starch and pour on the boiling water. Let it come to a boil, and flavor with brandy, a little nutmeg and a small pinch of salt. MRS. WILSON ROTHERMEL.

  5. Huckleberry Pudding No. 2 — One-third cup of butter,! ^4 cups of brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1^ cups of flour, 1^ teaspoonful baking powder, 1 pint berries — huckleberry, blackberry or cherries. ANNA L. HUFFORD.

  6. Chocolate Rice Pudding — One cup of rice boiled in 2^ cups of milk, add >^ teaspoonful of salt, boil until tender, let it cool, then add ^ pint of double cream whipped with 3 tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and 1 teaspoonful of vanilla. Mould in glass dish. Melt 34 cake of chocolate with 3 table- spoons of powdered sugar, J4- cup of milk, flavor with vanilla and when cold, put over top of rice.

  7. MRS. HARRY SMINK.

  8. Spanish Cream — One package of Coxe's Gelatine dis- solved in 1 quart of milk, 4 dessertspoonfuls of sugar beaten into the yolks of 4 eggs ; stir these into the milk and gelatine, and heat until it forms a custard (do not boil). Beat whites very light, add 3 tablespoonfuls of sugar ; fold into the custard, pour into moulds and put on the ice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1218Calories
33 gProtein
36 gFat
184 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
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
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Huckleberrynot 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 Snyder, Annie Iaeger. 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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

  2. Corn + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  4. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla 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

Swap the vanilla

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

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Raisinfits less well
  4. Figfits less well

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