Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓
Cream Sandwiches
Ingredients
Directions
MRS. W. D. CLEVELAND, HOUSTON, TEXAS.
_Contributed by Mrs. Robert Lindsay Pollard, Austin, Texas._
Grate a plate of ham or tongue. Boil 3 eggs half an hour and drop in ice water. When thoroughly cold mix the yolks to a cream with a tablespoon of fresh butter and enough cream to make it smooth paste. Add meat seasoning with a pinch of dry mustard and a dash of cayenne pepper. Cut crust from bread and slice thin.
CHEESECAKE.
A very old receipt, used by Mrs. George D. Wetherill with success.
_Contributed by Mrs. Morris Hacker, Philadelphia, Pa._
Take ¼ lb. butter, ¼ lb. sugar, beat to a cream one wineglass of wine and one of brandy, yolks of 4 eggs beaten light. To a small dipperful of cottage cheese take one tumbler of cream and beat together, then add to the latter. Stir in ½ lb. stale cake crumbs, sponge cake, pound cake, or any good cake, the richer the better your pie will be, whites of 4 eggs beaten to a snow, one small nutmeg, little cinnamon and grated lemon rind to taste. Spread very thick on a single crust, and this will be enough for two pies or one cheesecake. The white of the eggs are to go into the cheesecake and not on top.
CALVES’ FOOT JELLY.
MRS. TOLAND, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
_Contributed by Mrs. Meredith Bailey._
Boil the feet in about a gallon of water to each set, until clear of the bone. Strain and stand away until the next day. Then wipe the stock with a cloth or tissue paper, after carefully skimming off all grease, so that no particle remains, and measure your firm stock jelly. To each qt. of stock allow 1 scant lb. of sugar, 1 pt. of wine, the juice of 3 lemons, and the rind of 2, peeled thin, and the whites of 2 eggs with the shells. Put on stock, sugar and lemon juice; as soon as it is hot, throw in the eggs to clear it; boil about 10 minutes; throw in the wine, bring to a boil once, then drip through a bag.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Wine | 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) | 25 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Chili | 1 tsp (2.7g) | 8 |
| Cayenne | 1 tsp (1.8g) | 6 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Mustard | 1 tsp (5g) yellow | 3 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Pie | not in our table | 0 |
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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Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together27,047 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together11,318 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together13,015 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Mustard + nutmegtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,019 recipes
Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).
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 (wine, butter, pepper, egg, cream, nutmeg, lemon):
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Fit is the average pairing score against wine, butter, pepper, egg, cream, nutmeg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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