Name: Puff Paste Fob Eveey Kind of Tart
Ingredients: three pounds of flour; three pounds of butter; a pound of butter into it^; 26 tourtes; two eggs into

Why it works: Flour and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Puff Paste Fob Eveey Kind of Tart

Ingredients

Directions

Take three pounds of flour, put it on the paste-board, make a hole in the middle, and
break two eggs into it. Put about half a pound of butter into it^ and a little salt; wet your paste with cold water. When mixed, let it stand. Weigh three pounds of butter, roll out your paste and your butter, lay it on the paste ; fold it over and roll it out, fold it again three times, then let it stand. If for patties, roll it out a fourth time. *

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

635Calories

19 gProtein

18 gFat

96 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Frances Crawford. 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 + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together106,462 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).