Name: Breakfast and Tea Cakes
Ingredients: one pint of scalded milk on one tablespoonful each of butter; one teaspoonful of salt; three cups of flour; 2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder; one tablespoonful each of butter; one cake of yeast dissolved in a little lukewarm water

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Breakfast and Tea Cakes

Ingredients

one pint of scalded milk on one tablespoonful each of butter
one teaspoonful of salt
three cups of flour
2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder
one tablespoonful each of butter
one cake of yeast dissolved in a little lukewarm water

Directions

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2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking
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MRS. EDWARD DEWEY.
Parker House Rolls.
Pour one pint of scalded milk on one tablespoonful each of butter and sugar and one teaspoonful of salt. When lukewarm, add one cake of yeast dissolved in a little lukewarm water. Add three cups of flour and
beat well. Let it rise over night,
if mixed in the
morning, about three hours. Then add from two to three cups of flour, or enough to knead it, and knead half an hour. Let it rise in the bowl, shape into rolls, rise again and bake as usual.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

706Calories

21 gProtein

21 gFat

107 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Cake	not in our table	0
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Young Men's Christian Association (Montpelier, Vt.). Women of the Auxiliary. 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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).