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Graham Bread From Pure Potato Yeast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Graham Bread From Pure Potato Yeast

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the milk and cool it with the water.

  2. Beat all the ingredients thoroughly together and leave to rise.

  3. In a cold room (54°F), let it stand for 9 to 10 hours, or in a warm room (90°F to 95°F) for less than half that time.

  4. When light, drop portions into gem pans and let stand for 10 to 15 minutes before baking.

  5. Alternatively, smooth the mixture in pans or mold into loaves on a lightly floured board.

  6. If disturbed as little as possible, let it stand for 10 to 20 minutes to regain lightness; if molded, it requires more time.

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. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,540 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Milk + syruptop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,143 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

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