Name: A Good Drink
Ingredients: one-fourth teaspoonful cream tartar; 1 teaspoonful sugar

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

A Good Drink

Ingredients

one-fourth teaspoonful cream tartar
1 teaspoonful sugar

Directions

Keep this for summer.
Add one-fourth teaspoonful cream of tartar, one teaspoonful sugar, a few drops lemon extract, and a glass of cold water.
Stir well to make a nice glass of lemonade.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

100Calories

0 gProtein

5 gFat

13 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
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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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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cream of tartar: Adds a sharp, tart acidity that balances the sugar in the lemonade.
Sugar: Adds sweetness that offsets the tartness of the acid.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.