Name: Floating Island
Ingredients: 1 pint milk 3 eggs 4 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch heat the milk; 3 eggs 4 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch heat the milk; 4 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch heat the milk; 2 eggs; 8 flat bottomed wet cups to cool; 2 whites stiff; salt

Why it works: Milk and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,955 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Floating Island

Ingredients

1 pint milk 3 eggs 4 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch heat the milk
3 eggs 4 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch heat the milk
4 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch heat the milk
2 eggs
8 flat bottomed wet cups to cool
2 whites stiff
salt

Directions

4 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch
Heat the milk, beat the yolks of 2 eggs and the other with the sugar and starch, add a pinch ot salt and a little cold milk, add to the boiling milk and cook well, stirrdng till done. Pour out in 6 or 8 flat bottomed wet cups to cool. To serve, turn each out into a saucer, beat the 2 whites stiff", sweeten and flavor to taste, and pile on them, then pour around them raspberry or strawberrv sauce.
Mrs. T.J. Baker,

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

682Calories

27 gProtein

14 gFat

108 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
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.

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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.

Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,955 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Egg + corntop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,484 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).