Name: Delicate Cake
Ingredients: 2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butter; 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butter; 2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butter; 1 cupful corn starch 1 cupful butter 2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cup; 1 cupful butter 2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites; 2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butte; 7 eggs rub butter; 1 tea- spoonful cream tartar

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 ↓

Delicate Cake

Ingredients

2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butter
1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butter
2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butter
1 cupful corn starch 1 cupful butter 2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cup
1 cupful butter 2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites
2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour whites of 7 eggs rub butte
7 eggs rub butter
1 tea- spoonful cream tartar

Directions

1 cupful corn starch 1 cupful butter
2 cupfuls sugar 1 cupful sweet milk 2 cupfuls flour Whites of 7 eggs
Rub butter and sugar to a cream, mix 1 tea- spoonful cream tartar with the flour and corn starch, dissolve V2 teaspoonful soda in the milk and add to the sugar and butter, then add the flour and beaten whites of eggs. Flavor to taste. (Never fails to be good.) Mrs. G. L. J.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

884Calories

28 gProtein

31 gFat

121 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 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
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49

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

By Johnson, Vt. Congregational church. [from old catalog]. 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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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 + 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 + corntop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,955 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

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