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 ↓
German Trifle
Ingredients
Directions
Put a pint of strawberries, or any other fresh fruit.
106 THE GOOD CHEEK COOK BOOK.
in the bottom of a glass dish ; sugar the fruit, put over it a layer of macaroons and pour over it a custard made of a quart of milk and the yolks of eight eggs beaten. Sweeten to taste; when cold place on top the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, with a little sugar, or whip cream to a froth. The whites of eggs may be ornamented b}^ beating currant jelly with part of it, and putting it in alternate hills of white and pink.
Mrs. O. Holt.
HO^VAKD PUDDING.
One Cjuart of milk ; while that is boiling mix four tablespoonfuls of flour with cold milk until free from lumps ; when the milk is boiling, stir the flour in with one cupful of sugar and one-half cupful of butter. When all is well mixed, take off and let cool, then add six eggs, one teaspoonful of lemon, and one cupful of raisins. Bake in deep dish two hours.
Mrs. Searles,
Stillwater, Minn.
INDIAN MEAL PUDDING— No. 1.
One quart of sweet milk, one large tablespoonful of butter, four eggs, well-beaten, one cupful of corn meal, one cupful of sugar, scald milk and stir in the meal when boiling. When cool add the rest, and bake.
Mrs. H. H. Todd.
INDIAN MEAL PUDDING— No. 2.
Boil one quart of sweet milk, mix in it two and one- half gills of corn meal very smoothly, seven eggs well-beaten, one gill of molasses and a good piece of butter. Bake two hours. Virginia Cook Book.
THE GOOD CHEER COOK BOOK. 107
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Corn | 1/2 cup kernels (82g) | 77 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Molasses | 1 tbsp (20g) | 58 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Strawberry | 1 cup (152g) | 49 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together9,075 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Milk + corntop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together6,955 recipes
Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
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Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,225 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together124,287 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, raisin, milk, corn, molasses, butter):
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Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, raisin, milk, corn, molasses, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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