Name: The Bakers Guide
Ingredients: a pint of milk; 2 eggs; 6 ozs; 5 eggs; 2 ozs; 1 large beaten egg; ginger

Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The Bakers Guide

Ingredients

Directions

Ginger-Bread.
J lb. margarine, 2 eggs, \ lb. chopped peel, \ lb. moist sugar, $ oz. powder, syrup or treacle to make firm dough, 2 lb. flour, 1 oz. ginger. Put the butter, ginger, sugar, and the flour together, make a bay or hole in the middle, pour in the syrup, add the peel and almonds and a little spice ; knead the whole into a firm dough, weigh into 1 or 2 lb. pieces, make them into squares, press them or mould upon the usual ginger-bread block, or put the squares upon the tin and dock them ; place pieces of buttered .wood against each side, firmly fastened to keep in position, bake in a cool oven, and when baked, wash over with white of egg, which will give a bright gloss.
This is a new recipe and is given to fill the place of ordinary gingerbread, as that contains a large percentage of alum, the use of which is destructive to health and in defiance of law.
Common ''Seedy's."
$i lbs. flour, 6 ozs. sugar, i lb. butter, 1 oz. of caraway seeds, 1 oz. powdered vol., about a third of a pint of milk. Rub the butter with the flour, put the caraways and sugar in the middle of a bay made in the flour, dissolve the vol. in the milk, and mix the whole into a smooth dough ; don't work it about and make it tough ; cut out i inch thick with round cutters, place on greased baking-tins, and bake in a very hot oven.
Note. — The oven must be hot to drive off" the ammonia.
Dessert Arrowroot Biscuits- Cream up \ lb. of butter, \ lb. sugar, and 5 eggs ; add \ lb. flour and i lb. arrowroot, rubbed through a sieve ; mix all care- fully into a smooth dough, roll and cut out with a small round cutter ; if the dough is too soft to roll with a rolling-pin, take it up with a spoon, and drop it upon a buttered tin, and bake in a sharp oven.
Arrowroot Drops.
i lb sifted arrowroot, 2 ozs. butter, J lb. sugar, 1 large beaten egg, 2 ozs. finely chopped peel (lemon), tablespoonful of milk ; place these ingredients in a buttered saucepan, and boil them slowly, stirring briskly all the time until they appear light ; then with a small spoon or savoy bag put pieces about the size of a walnut upon a buttered tin, and bake in good oven.
Cocoanut Drops-
1 lb. ground or grated cocoanut, ij- lb. castor sugar, and yo whites of eggs ; whip the whites as for meringues into a firm
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

229Calories

14 gProtein

13 gFat

13 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2

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

By Blandy, John. 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.

Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + gingertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,519 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Egg + gingertop 33% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,337 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).