Miss Maby Beooks

Name: Miss Maby Beooks
Ingredients: one cup of molasses; one cup of butter; one cup of sugar add one cup of butter; two cups cookies; two tablespoonfuls of ginger; two teaspoonfuls of soda; six cups of flour; 1 cup sugar; 1 teaspoonful soda in % cup 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar; 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar; 1 teaspoonful soda; 1 cup molasses; 1 tablespoonful ginger mt?s t; 1 cup butter; 2 cups sugar; 1 cup milk; 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar; a cup of water; one tea- spoonful of soda; 3 eggs; half sweet; 1 egg; ginger; nutmeg; salt

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Young Men's Christian Association (Montpelier, Vt.). Women of the Auxiliary · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 25 ingredients

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Miss Maby Beooks

Ingredients

Directions

Ginger Snaps.
One cup of molasses, one cup of butter, and a table- spoonful of ginger boiled ten minutes. Add one tea- spoonful of soda, dissolved in a little hot water. Flour enough to make a stiff dough, roll very thin and cut in odd shaped pieces.
MES. C. H. BALDWIN.
Thin Ginger Cookies.
To one cup of sugar add one cup of butter, two cups
COOKIES. IO3
of molasses, one-half a cup of water, two tablespoonfuls of ginger, two teaspoonfuls of soda, and six cups of flour.
MRS. A. W. SLOCUM.
Hard Gingerbread*
% cup butter Ginger to taste.
1 teaspoonful soda in % cup 2 teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, warm water.
Flour enough to roll out thin. Sift and roll in pul- verized sugar and bake in quick oven. This is good for cookies by leaving out ginger and adding nutmeg or other flavor to taste.
MRS. J. V. BROOKS.
New York Gingerbread.
1 cup sugar. % cup butter.
l% eggs. % teaspoonful salt.
i34 teaspoonfuls ginger. 2.% cups flour.
^ pint milk, half sweet, half 1 teaspoonful soda, sour.
Beat well together the sugar, butter, eggs, and salt. Add the balance of the ingredients and bake.
MRS. EDWARD DEWEY.
Drop Molasses Cookies.
% cup sugar. 1 % cup butter.
1 egg. % cup clear coffee.
1 cup molasses. 1 I tablespoonful soda.
7.% cups unsifted flour. | 1 tablespoonful ginger
MT?S T. TR4T?T
MRS. L. BART CROSS.
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar. % teaspoonful soda.
Flour to roll out. Salt and spice to taste.
MRS. T. J. DEAVITT.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

956Calories

28 gProtein

32 gFat

137 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 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
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Molasses	1 tbsp (20g)	58
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	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.

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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.

Ginger + teatop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together216 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (molasses, butter, sugar, flour, cream, milk, tea):

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegfits better
Gingerthe original
Clovefits less well

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