Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
The Dewey Ccok Book
Ingredients
Directions
White Nut Cake,
2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder. Whites of 6 eggs.
i cup butter. 3 cups flour.
lb. English walnut meats, broken.
Flavor with almond. Frost the cake, and place whole halves of the nut on the top. For the icing use a quarter of a pound of sugar to the white of one egg. Beat the white to a froth, add the sugar and beat until stiff.
MISS .JOSEPHIXE WOOD.
Walnut Cake.
% cup sugar.
4a scant cup butter.
stiff froth, i teaspoon fu! cream of tartar.
■o teaspoonful soda, i coffee cup English walnuts.
MBS. W. A. BKIGGS.
Whites five eggs.
Walnut Cake.
I 2 cups flour.
cream of tartar.
% cup butter. }.2 teaspoonful soda, i large cup chopped walnut meats.
MRS. T. C. PHIXXEY.
Nut Cake.
Whites □! four rggs. 2 cups flour. % cup water
yz cup butter. i4i cups sugar.
heaping teaspoonful baking- i cup nut kernels. powder.
Beat the butter to a cream. Add sugar, water, then the flour into which the baking powder has been mixed. Stir all together ; to this add half of the beaten whites of eggs, then the nuts, then the remainder of the whites of eggs.
3IRS. E. P. SMILIE.
Raised Cake*
\% cups bread sponge. j I cup sugar.
% cup butter. , t}3 cups flour.
2 eggs. j Salt — spices.
Two-thirds teaspoonful soda dissolved in a little milk, one cup raisins, seeded, halved and floured added the last thing. Rise one-half or three-quarters of an hour.
G. R. H.
Delicious Lemon Jelly Cake»
2 cups sugar. % cup butter.
3 eggs. i teaspoonful soda.
Bake in three or four shallow pans.
Jelly for Filling. — Grated rind and juice of three lemons, one cup of sugar, one egg, a little more than half a cup of water, a piece of butter, one tablespoonful of flour, or more if needed to thicken. Simmer, then spread between the layers. This cake is improved by keeping a few days.
MRS. HENRY UOLTON.
Snowdrift Cake*
2 cups sugar. j cup butter
cup sweet milk. Whites five eggs, i teaspoonful cream of tartar.
teaspoonful soda.
Filling. — Whites of two eggs, two small cups sugar, one pound English walnuts. Boiled frosting.
MRS. L. BART CROSS.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Walnut | 1 walnut half (4g) | 26 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Cake | 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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Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together9,075 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Milk + buttertop 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 + creamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together124,287 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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 walnut
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, milk, flour, raisin, cream, egg, butter):
- Almondfits better
- Chestnutfits better
- Pistachiofits better
- Walnutthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, flour, raisin, cream, egg, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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