Name: Fruit Cake Without Eggs
Ingredients: 2 pounds flour; 1 pint milk; 1 pound raisins; 4 tea-spoonful salt; 1 nutmeg; 1 glass brandy; three loaves; salt

Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fruit Cake Without Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

4 tea-spoonful salt, \ tea-spoon soda dissolved in
1 nutmeg, a little hot water,
This makes three loaves. Warm the milk, add to it the salt; work the sugar and butter to a cream, add the milk, then the flour, then the soda, lastly spice and fruit.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

678Calories

22 gProtein

10 gFat

124 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Brandy	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 Sterrett, Laura C. 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.

Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,075 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Raisin + nutmegtop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,377 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).
Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,623 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Raisin + brandytop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,768 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, milk, raisin, tea, brandy):

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegthe original
Clovefits less well
Gingerfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk, raisin, tea, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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Fruit Cake Without Eggs