Why it works: Vanilla and milk 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 ↓
Second Part
Ingredients
Directions
I cup brown sugar. I 1 cup grated chocolate.
% cup sweet milk.
Put on the stove and cook until dissolved, and add to the first part while hot.
MES. H. M. O'DELX.
Devil Cake*
Two cups of brown sugar, half a cup of butter, halt a cup of sour milk. Two eggs beaten separately, one- third of a cake of chocolate stirred in half a cup of boil- ing water, one teaspoonful of soda, stirred in the milk, two cups and a half of flour and one teaspoonful of
vanilla. Bake in thin sheets and put together with a rilling made by mixing two cups of brown sugar, one- half a cup of sweet milk, and butter the size of an egg. Boil until it hardens in cold water, stirring all the time, add one teaspoonful of vanilla and when cool enough put between the layers.
MRS. A. M. ATKINS.
Orange Cake*
Cream one-quarter of a cup of butter, add one cup of sugar, two well-beaten eggs, half a cup of milk, and one and a half cups of flour in which has been mixed one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Bake in thin sheets, and put together with a filling made by mixing half a cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one egg, the rind and juice of half an orange and one-half tablespoonful of lemon juice. Cook in a double boiler ten minutes and spread between the sheets.
MRS. A. M. ATKINS.
Orange Cake.
i heaping cup flour.
2 tablespoonfuls sweet cream. % teaspoonful soda.
Drop with teaspoon and bake.
Frosting for cake : — One cup of sugar wet with five tablespoonfuls of milk. Boil five minutes and flavor with orange, stir until like cream and spread on cakes.
MRS. C H. H EATON.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Sour Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| 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.
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.
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Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together19,187 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together10,020 recipes
Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
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Butter + milktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked 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
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, sugar, vanilla, flour, cream, butter, milk):
- Coconutfits better
- Figfits better
- Strawberryfits better
- Lemonthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, sugar, vanilla, flour, cream, butter, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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