Name: To Make Baking Powder
Ingredients: 1 lb best white flour or cornflour; ½ lb cream of tartar; ¼ lb tartaric acid; 6 oz bicarbonate of soda

Why it works: Flour and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,481 recipes. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

To Make Baking Powder

Ingredients

1 lb best white flour or cornflour
½ lb cream of tartar
¼ lb tartaric acid
6 oz bicarbonate of soda

Directions

Mix all the ingredients together.
Pass the mixture through a sieve.
Store the powder in a bottle or canister and keep it well corked.

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.

Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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To Make Baking Powder