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CinNAMON Bread

A yeast bread loaf brushed with butter and dusted with cinnamon and sugar, then baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

CinNAMON Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roll out the yeast bread dough to about ¾ inch thick.

  2. Cut into round cakes the size of a breakfast plate.

  3. Cover each cake with thin slices of butter.

  4. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and then with sugar.

Rise and bake

  1. Let the cakes rise until very light.

  2. Bake until golden.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + cinnamontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Bread + cinnamontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Cinnamon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

What each ingredient does

Light yeast bread dough
Forms the base of the cakes and rises to give them a light, airy texture.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the top brown as it bakes.
Cinnamon
Provides the main aroma and warm flavor of the bread.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top caramelize to a golden color.

The step that matters

Let the cakes rise until very light. Yeast dough needs enough rise before baking to become airy. Underproofed cakes stay dense, while overproofed dough can collapse or lose structure in the oven.

“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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