Name: Plain Doughnuts
Ingredients: 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful salt cream; 4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful salt cream; 1 teaspoonful salt cream; 1 egg 2 cupfuls sour milk 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespo; 2 cupfuls sour milk 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespoonfuls; 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful; salt

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 ↓

Plain Doughnuts

Ingredients

1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful salt cream
4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful salt cream
1 teaspoonful salt cream
1 egg 2 cupfuls sour milk 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespo
2 cupfuls sour milk 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespoonfuls
4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful
salt

Directions

4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful soda 4 tablespoonfuls butter 1 teaspoonful salt Cream, butter and sugar Flour to mold lightly and
roll out Beat in the egg, add milk with the soda dissolved in it, then flour. Let it rise 10 minutes, then fry.
Mrs. H. W. S.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

429Calories

15 gProtein

30 gFat

26 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sour 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
Salt	1 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 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).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).