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To Prepare Butter for Rich Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98,233 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

To Prepare Butter for Rich Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the butter into small pieces and gently melt it until it is liquefied, but not hot.

  2. Warm a pan and shake the butter in it near the fire until it dissolves.

  3. Ensure the melted butter is not hot when adding it to the other ingredients.

  4. Mix the other ingredients first, then pour in the melted butter in small portions.

  5. If the butter is very hard, beat it with the back of a large wooden spoon until it resembles thick cream.

  6. Add the sugar to the softened butter first, then incorporate the other ingredients in succession.

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.

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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.

  1. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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