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Green-and-silver Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,564 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Green-and-silver Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a good silver cake batter and reserve 1 cup.

  2. Mix the reserved batter with enough spinach juice to color it green.

  3. Add a little flour to compensate for the thinning from the juice.

  4. To make spinach juice, place washed spinach leaves in a boiler over boiling water.

  5. Cover and maintain a hard boil until the leaves are scalded and release their juices.

  6. Squeeze the mixture through a cloth and cool before using.

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. Spinach + flourtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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