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Raisbd Doughnuts

A doughnut made from Parker House roll mixture flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, egg, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Raisbd Doughnuts

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Mix the egg, butter, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg into the Parker House roll mixture thoroughly.

  2. Let the dough rise until it doubles in size.

Shape and fry

  1. Roll the dough into a thin sheet and cut it into rings.

  2. Let the rings rise again, then fry them until golden brown.

  3. Drain the fried doughnuts on paper towels.

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.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + cinnamontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Butter + nutmegtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Egg
Binds the dough and adds richness and structure to the crumb.
Butter
Adds fat for a tender texture and richer flavour.
Sugar
Sweetens the dough and helps the fried surface brown.
Parker house roll mixture
Forms the yeasted dough base that rises and gives the doughnuts their body.

The step that matters

Frying the rings until golden brown. Oil that is too cool lets the rings absorb grease and turn heavy, while oil that is too hot browns the outside before the inside cooks through. Steady moderate heat gives an even, light result.

“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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