Name: Breakfast and Tea Cakes
Ingredients: 88 rice puffs; 90 wedding sandwich rolls; 93 fried mush; 98 cakes; 96 boiled frosting; 96 chocolate custard cake; 97 cinnamon snaps; 97 cinnamon cake; 09 crullers; 99 index; 3 soft gingerbread; 56 index; half batch plum pudding

Why it works: Rice and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Breakfast and Tea Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Breakfast Toast 85
Buttered Toast 85
Cold Water Gems 86
Good Graham Gems 86
Sweet Milk Gems 87
Fritters 87
Apple Fritters 87
Clam Fritters 87
Com Fritters 88
Rice Puffs. 88
Corn Oysters 88
Cucumber Fritters 88
Cream Fritters 88
Snow Fritters 88
Muffins 88
Graham Muffins 89
Pocket Books 89
Flannel Rolls 89
French Rolls 89
Minnesota Rolls 90
Parker House Rolls 90
Wedding Sandwich Rolls ... 91
Ohio Waffles 92
Quick Waffles 92
Raised Waffles 92
Rice Waffles 93
Vanities 93
Fried Mush. . . . : 9:5
Johnny Cake 93
Rolled Pancakes 98
Almond Cake 94
Almond Cake Loaf 94
Apple Fruit Cake 95
Angels' Food 95
Black Cake 96
Boiled Frosting. . , 96
Bride's Cake 96
Chocolate Cake 96
Chocolate Custard Cake. ... 97
Cinnamon Snaps. . . .• 97
Cinnamon Cake , . 97
Citron Cake 98
Clove Snaps 98
Cocoanut Cake 98
Coffee Cake 98
Cookies 99
Corn Starch Cake 09
Crullers .' 99
CAKE. — Continued.
Cup Cake 100
Custard Cake 100
Delicate Cake 100
Gold Cake 100
Fruit Cake.... 101
Dimples 101
Doughnuts 101
Election Cake, Old Hartford 102
Election Cake, Salem. . . 102
Feather Cake 102
Fig Cake 103
French Cream Cake 103
Fruit Cake 104
Fruit Cake without Eggs. ..105
Fruit Tart 105
Fruit Cake, Temperance. ...105
Ginger Snaps 105
Soft Ginger Snaps. . 106
Alum Gingerbread 106
Soft Gingerbread 10(3
Soft Gingerbread, without
Sponge Gingerbread 106
Ginger Drops. 107
Ginger Drop Cakes 10T
Golden Cream Cake 107
Groom's Cake 107
Hard Times Cake 107
Hard Money Cake 108
Hickory Nut Jumbles 108
Imperial Cake 108
Imperium Cake 109
Ice Cream Cake ' 109
Aunty Phelps' Pie Crust 120
Good Common Paste 120
Graham Paste ...121
Puff Paste 121
Graham Pie Crust 121
Jumbles 109
Lady Cake 109
Lady Cake, Loaf 109
Lady ' s Fingers 110
Lemon Cake 110
Loaf Cake 110
Marble Cake Ill
Marbled Chocolate Cake 112
Modelines 112
Mountain Cake 112
Nut Cake 112
Orange Cake 113
Icing for Orange Cake 113
Peach Cake 113
Pound Cake 113
Raisin Cake 114
Rice Cake 114
Richard Cake 114
Snow Cake 114
Soda Pound Cake 114
Spice Cake 115
Sponge Cake 115
Boiled Icing 116
Sponge Muffins 117
Sugar Drops 117
Trifles 117
Washington Cake 118
White Pound Cake 119
White Cake ....112
White Tumbler Cake 119
White Sponge Cake 119
Whipped Cream Cake 119
Pie Crust 121
Almond Tarts! 122
Apple Custard Pie. 122
Dried Apple Pie 122
Sliced Apple Pie 122
PASTRY — Con tin fed .
Banana Pie 122
Cocoanut Pie 123
Cocoanut Tarts 123
Cream Tarts 123
Ripe Currant Pie 123
Green Currant Pie 123
Custard Pie 124
Lemon Pie 124
Mince Meat 121
Apple Dumplings 128
Apple Dumplings, rolled. . . .128 Apple Dumplings, boiled. . .129
Apple Pudding 129
Apple Pudding, baked 129
Apple Tapioca Pudding 129
Apple Roly Poly 129
Bird's Nest Pudding 130
Boston Snow Pudding 130
Brown Pudding 130
Cliocolate Pudding 130
Cocoanut Pudding 131
Cottage Pudding 131
Corn Starch Pudding 131
Cream Pudding 132
Eggless Plum Pudding 132
Fig Pudding 132
Flour Pudding 133
Frozen Pudding 133
Fruit Pudding, boiled 133
Fruit Pudding 133
Grandmother's Pudding. . . .134 Half Batch Plum Pudding. .135 Half Hour Pudding 135
Mock Mince Pie 125
Orange Pie ..126
Pie Plant Pie 126
Pine Apple Pie 126
Potato Pie 126
Pumpkin Pie 126
Sand Tarts 12?
Tart Shells 127
Indian Pudding 135
Indian Pudding, boiled 135
Lemon Pudding 136
March Pudding 136
Minute Pudding 136
Molasses Pudding 137
Plum Pudding 137
Poor Man's Pudding 138
Queen of Puddings 138
Rice Pudding 138
Rice Pudding, Plain 139
Rice Snow Balls 139
Sago and Apple Pudding. . .139
Steam Pudding 139
Cocoanut Sauce 140
Cold Cream Sauce 140
Cream Sauce 140
Every Day Sauce 140
Lemon Sauce .140
Maple Sugar Sauce 141
Orange Hard Sauce 141
Pine Apple Sauce 141
Plain Cream Sauce 141

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

397Calories

6 gProtein

9 gFat

72 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Chocolate	1 oz (28g) semisweet	155
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Cake	not in our table	0
Pudding	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.

Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,137 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Cinnamon + plumtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together513 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Chocolate + cinnamontop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,808 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Rice + plumtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together187 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Rice + chocolatetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together509 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).