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Yeast Bread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 938 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Yeast Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean, peel, and boil about 3½ pounds of potatoes.

  2. Mash the potatoes carefully to remove all lumps or force through a potato ricer.

  3. Allow the mashed potatoes to cool until lukewarm.

  4. Make a sponge from the potatoes, corn syrup, salt, yeast softened in ½ cup of liquid, and 1½ cups of wheat flour.

  5. Set the sponge in a warm place to rise until light.

  6. Mix in the remaining wheat flour and ground rolled oats.

  7. Knead thoroughly until a smooth and stiff dough forms.

  8. Set the dough aside at 80°F to 86°F for about 2 hours or until it rises.

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. Potato + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Corn + wheattop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Oats + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together473 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Potato + wheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Oats + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together220 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

Swap the potato

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

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

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

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