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Orange Cake

Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the yolks of 12 eggs with 1 pound of pulverized sugar, grate the peel of 1 orange and 1 lemon, add the juice of both, then add the beaten whites of 8 eggs and ½ pound sifted flour.

  2. ICING—To the beaten whites of 2 eggs add a little confectioners’ sugar, grate the peel of 1 large orange, adding the juice of same alternately with sugar until quite stiff. It takes nearly 1½ pounds of sugar.

  3. Frances H. Potter.

  4. “Snow Flake.”

  5. 1 cupful of butter, 1 cupful of milk, 1 cupful of corn starch, 1½ cupful of sugar, 2 cupsful of flour, 3 spoonsful of baking powder, whites of 4 eggs. This makes two loaf cakes.

  6. Miss Rhein.

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  8. Dealer in Hats, Caps and Furs 315 Jefferson Street, BURLINGTON, IOWA.

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  10. THE BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE, FOUNDED JUNE, 1839.

  11. Daily, 15 cents per week, by carrier. Weekly, $1.00 per year, by mail. Sunday, $2.00 per year, by mail.

  12. Send The Hawk-Eye (Daily, Sunday or Weekly), to your relatives or friends abroad, it helps to advertise Burlington and will prove a welcome visitor to the recipient.

  13. THE HAWK-EYE CO., Publishers.

  14. * * * * *

  15. For the Best Goods made in Burlington you will find at my place every day. These are fresh and made by skilled labor. My motto is “how good and not how cheap.” Every pound of goods guaranteed pure, made every day of the best material. Special sale every day.

  16. JAS. W. SMITHER, 313 Jefferson Street.

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

907Calories
29 gProtein
26 gFat
139 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Cakenot in our table0

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

By Christ Church Episcopal (Burlington, Iowa). 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.

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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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  4. Corn + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together586 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, butter, milk, corn, egg, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, butter, milk, corn, egg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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