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How We Cook in Tennessee

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Why it works: Orange and strawberry work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 726 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

How We Cook in Tennessee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. the bottom of a dish and moisten with sherry. Then put on a spoonful of strawberry or raspberry jam; on this heap the whipped cream, flavored just a little with vanilla or almond. Set on ice to chill.

  2. Syllabub. — Two pints cream whipped ; whites five eggs beaten stiff; add one cup sugar to them and mix with cream; pour half pint wine into it. Serve in small custard glasses.

  3. Cranberry Marmalade. — One and one-half pints of cranber- ries, half pound of English walnuts, one pound of sugar. Boil together until very thick and pour in a mold. When cold slice down in thin slices and serve.

  4. Pineapple Foam. — Beat whites of two eggs very light ; whip one large cupful of cream; add the whites; stir in two table- spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and last stir slightly in a can of grated pineapple. Chill and serve in glass cups.

  5. The Magic Nest. — The rinds of two oranges cut in small strips like matches. These are then dipped into a thick sirup made of white sugar; these are then laid in a dish to harden. Then make a bowl of blanc mange (made after the recipe to be found in any good cook book) ; this is then poured in the shells of six eggs, which were only chipped at one end when the con- tents were used. They are then set on ice to harden. When ready for use the shells are broken off. Put on a dish and build a nest of the candied orange peel, and into the nest put the eggs of blanc mange. The effect will be found most at- tractive.— Mrs. S. A. Howard.

  6. Heavenly Hash. — Take as many oranges as covers for the table; cut off the tops carefully and scoop out the meat. To one quart of orange (clipped carefully) the same quantity each of nice figs, dates, raisins and citron (all clipped carefully), and the strained juice of one or two lemons. It must have a little acid taste. Then sprinkle a little sugar to taste. Then pour one pint sherry over it, to taste. Put in a china bowl and cover closely to stand over night. Fill the orange cups care-

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

352Calories
10 gProtein
14 gFat
46 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Strawberry1 cup (152g)49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Lemonjuice 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 Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society. 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. Orange + strawberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together726 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sherry + strawberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Walnut + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Wine + strawberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

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 (cream, sugar, wine, orange, sherry, strawberry, egg):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Pistachiofits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, wine, orange, sherry, strawberry, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.