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Marble Cake

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Marble Cake

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For the white part, rub together 3 ounces and 6 ounces of sugar with 1 pound of flour.

  2. Mix ½ cup of milk with ¼ ounce of cream of tartar, then add to the flour mixture.

  3. Incorporate 4 beaten egg whites and ¼ ounce of baking soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon of water, and mix well.

  4. For the dark part, combine 6 ounces of brown sugar, 1 pound of flour, and 6 ounces of treacle.

  5. Add ½ teacup of milk mixed with ¼ ounce of cream of tartar and 5 egg yolks, then flavor with cinnamon, cloves, and lemon.

  6. In a 12-inch square tin, layer the dark and white mixtures until 1 inch thick.

  7. Cut into squares of 3 inches and then into thirds.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, milk, cream, egg, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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

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