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Peanut Flour -corn Meal - Wheat Biscuits

A biscuit made from corn meal, peanut flour, wheat flour, baking powder, salt, shortening, and liquid.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 346 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Peanut Flour -corn Meal - Wheat Biscuits

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine corn meal, peanut flour, sifted flour, baking powder, and salt.

  2. Add shortening and mix until crumbly.

Make and shape the dough

  1. Gradually add liquid until a dough forms.

  2. Roll out the dough and cut into biscuits.

Bake

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

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. Corn + peanuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Corn + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Peanut + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Corn meal
Gives the biscuits a coarse, slightly crumbly texture and a distinct corn flavor.
Peanut flour
Adds nutty flavor and tenderness, since it contains no gluten to build structure.
Sifted flour
Provides the gluten structure that holds the biscuits together and lets them rise.
Baking powder
Releases gas when heated, leavening the biscuits so they rise and become light.
Shortening
Coats flour particles and melts in the oven, making the biscuits tender and flaky.

The step that matters

Mix in the shortening until crumbly. Rubbing fat into the flour until it forms small crumbs coats the flour particles, limiting gluten development. Overworking the dough or melting the fat early makes biscuits tough rather than tender.

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, flour):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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