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Stuffed Ginger Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and nuts work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 982 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Stuffed Ginger Cake

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Bake the Sour Milk Ginger Cake in a round pan.

  2. Once baked, dig out the center, leaving a 1-inch thick shell.

  3. Prepare 1.5 times the Ice Water Meringue recipe.

  4. Fill the cake with the meringue, adding sliced nuts or fruit if desired.

  5. Bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

  6. Alternatively, use stiff whipped cream instead of meringue.

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. Milk + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together982 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Milk + gingertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,519 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Ginger + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the nuts

The recipe marks nuts as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, ginger, cream):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, ginger, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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