Name: Chocolate Filling
Ingredients: 1 cupful of sugar late 1 cupful of boiling water 2 heaping teaspoonfuls; 1 cupful of boiling water 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of a small piece of butter co; 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of a small piece of butter corn starch a little salt mo; salt

Why it works: Butter and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,345 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Filling

Ingredients

1 cupful of sugar late 1 cupful of boiling water 2 heaping teaspoonfuls
1 cupful of boiling water 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of a small piece of butter co
2 heaping teaspoonfuls of a small piece of butter corn starch a little salt mo
salt

Directions

% cupful of grated choco- 1 cupful of sugar
late 1 cupful of boiling water
2 heaping teaspoonfuls of A small piece of butter corn starch A little salt
Moisten the corn starch in a little cold water, add
this to the boiling water, let it cook until thick, add
a little vanilla.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

606Calories

13 gProtein

13 gFat

108 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
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 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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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.

Butter + corntop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,345 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Sugar + corntop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,168 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).