Name: Ginger Snaps
Ingredients: 1 teaspoonful soda 1 teaspoonful ginger flour to roll mrs; 1 teaspoonful ginger flour to roll mrs; 1 cupful molasses 1 cupful sugar 1 cupful butter v2 cupful sour milk 1 table; 1 cupful sugar 1 cupful butter v2 cupful sour milk 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1; 1 cupful butter v2 cupful sour milk 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 teaspoonful soda; 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 teaspoonful soda 1 teaspoonful ginger flour to roll; 2 eggs 2 tablespoonfuls sweet 1 heaping teaspoonful milk baking powder v2 teas; 2 tablespoonfuls sweet 1 heaping teaspoonful milk baking powder v2 teaspoonful; 1 heaping teaspoonful milk baking powder v2 teaspoonful salt sprinkle a litt

Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

Ginger Snaps

Ingredients

1 teaspoonful soda 1 teaspoonful ginger flour to roll mrs
1 teaspoonful ginger flour to roll mrs
1 cupful molasses 1 cupful sugar 1 cupful butter v2 cupful sour milk 1 table
1 cupful sugar 1 cupful butter v2 cupful sour milk 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1
1 cupful butter v2 cupful sour milk 1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 teaspoonful soda
1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 teaspoonful soda 1 teaspoonful ginger flour to roll
2 eggs 2 tablespoonfuls sweet 1 heaping teaspoonful milk baking powder v2 teas
2 tablespoonfuls sweet 1 heaping teaspoonful milk baking powder v2 teaspoonful
1 heaping teaspoonful milk baking powder v2 teaspoonful salt sprinkle a litt

Directions

1 cupful molasses 1 cupful sugar
1 cupful butter V2 cupful sour milk
1 tablespoonful vinegar 1 teaspoonful soda
1 teaspoonful ginger Flour to roll
Mrs. Thompson,
1 V2 cupfuls sugar % cupful butter
2 eggs 2 tablespoonfuls sweet 1 heaping teaspoonful milk
baking powder V2 teaspoonful salt
Sprinkle a little sugar on Flour to roll top
Mrs. Thompson.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1045Calories

35 gProtein

34 gFat

148 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
Sour Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Molasses	1 tbsp (20g)	58
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Tea	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.

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.

Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Molasses + sugartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,225 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Ginger + molassestop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,116 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 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 ginger

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

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegfits better
Allspicefits about as well
Gingerthe original

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