Skip to main content

The Dewey Cook Book

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The Dewey Cook Book

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spice Cake*

  2. Two-thirds of a cup of butter or a little more, a cup and a half of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, three cups of flour, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, or one-half teaspoonful of soda and one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful cinnamon, half tea- spoonful of cloves, half teaspoonful of nutmeg, one cup of slightly chopped raisins.

  3. MRS. HENRY COLTON.

  4. Feather Cake.

  5. % cups flour, cup sugar.

  6. % cup milk. 3^ teaspoonful soda.

  7. Butter the size of a large egg. % teaspoonful cream of tartar. Salt to taste.

  8. Flavor with lemon or orange.

  9. BOSTON WOMAN'S EXCHANGE, (L. H. J.)

  10. Pound Cake*

  11. I lb. fine granulated sugar.

  12. % pound butter.

  13. % teaspoonful cream of tartar.

  14. i pound sifted flour. 8 eggs.

  15. 3^ teaspoonful soda.

  16. Sift the cream of tartar and soda into the flour. Rub the butter and sugar together until very light, add the yolks of the eggs, spices and a part of the flour. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and add the re- mainder of the flour, beat thoroughly. Bake in two loaves.

  17. ij^ cups sugar, i cup molasses, i cup raisins, i cup strong coffee, i teaspoonful soda.

  18. Coffee Cake*

  19. MRS. T. C. PHINNEY.

  20. i cup butter. 5 cups flour, i cup currants.

  21. One teaspoonful each of all kinds of spice. Bake in two loaves.

  22. MRS. C. A. SPARROW.

  23. Caramel Cake*

  24. i cup sugar. % cup milk, i teaspoonful soda.

  25. 2 eggs. % cup butter. 2 cups flour.

  26. % teaspoonful cream of tartar.

  27. Frosting : — Two cups of sugar, two-thirds cup of milk, butter the size of an egg, flavor with vanilla. Boil the frosting.

  28. ST. JOHNSBURY, (MRS. T. J. DEAVITT).

  29. Pork Cake.

  30. i pint molasses, i pound brown sugar, i pound currants. }4> teaspoonful soda.

  31. i lb. salt pork, chopped fine. % pint boiling water, poured

  32. on pork. I pound raisins. % pound citron.

  33. All kinds of spices, add flour to make quite stiff. Bake slowly.

  34. MRS. D. S. WHEATLET.

  35. Tea Cake*

  36. 1 cup sugar. \% cups milk.

  37. 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter. % teaspoonful soda.

  38. i % cups (pastry) flour.

  39. i teaspoonful cream of tartar.

  40. A little nutmeg.

  41. MRS. M. D. RHINEHART.

  42. Soft Honey Cake*

  43. i cup strained honey. | % cup sugar.

  44. 3^ cup butter. 2 eggs.

  45. i teaspoonful soda. | 2)2 cups flour.

  46. Bake in cup tins or patty pans.

  47. MRS. M. DU B. RHINEHART.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

971Calories
29 gProtein
33 gFat
141 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)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.

  1. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Nutmeg + raisintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Raisinthe original
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Blueberryfits less well

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

More spice cake recipes

You might also like