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Afternoon Tea Cakes

Small cakes made from flour, ground rice, milk, butter, sugar, and jam, baked into rounds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By T. J. Edmonds Ltd. · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Afternoon Tea Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Rub butter into flour.

  2. Add sugar and Edmonds' Baking Powder. Mix well.

  3. Add egg and sufficient milk to make a light dough.

Shape and fill

  1. Roll and cut into rounds.

  2. Place a little raspberry jam on each, wet the edges, and press them together.

Bake

  1. Put on cold, greased oven shelf, and bake about 10 minutes.

Make the creamed mixture

  1. Cream butter and sugar.

  2. Sift and mix dry ingredients into same.

  3. Mix all thoroughly with the milk.

  4. Add flavouring.

  5. Bake in patty pans in moderate oven from 10 to 12 minutes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1090Calories
32 gProtein
32 gFat
166 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By T. J. Edmonds Ltd.. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

  1. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked 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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure of the cakes as its proteins and starch set in the oven.
Butter
Coats the flour particles to tenderise the crumb and adds richness.
Egg
Binds the dough and adds structure and richness to the crumb.
Milk
Hydrates the flour so the mixture forms a dough, and adds softness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown during baking.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the heat, causing the cakes to rise and become light.

The step that matters

Add egg and sufficient milk to make a light dough.. Adding only enough milk keeps the dough soft and workable. Too much liquid or overmixing develops gluten in the flour, making the cakes tough rather than light.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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