Name: Essence of Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 2 - 9x5 inch loaves
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal; 6 cups bread flour; 2 (.25 ounce) packages rapid rise yeast; 2 teaspoons salt; 2 1/2 cups warm water (120 to 130 degrees F/50 degrees C)

Essence of Bread

"This is about as simple as a bread recipe can be. It's great tasting, crusty, yeasty, coarse-textured, satisfying bread. I'm a guy, and I can make this perfect every time. This bread is the exact of opposite of all the other soft, fine-textured, preservative laden, over-priced supermarket breads. It's easiest if you use a stand-type mixer with bread hooks. If you don't have one, buy one. It'll be the most-used appliance in your kitchen, next to the toaster."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients

Why it works: Bread and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,383 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Essence of Bread

2 - 9x5 inch loaves

Prep15 min

Cook30 min

Ingredients

2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
6 cups bread flour
2 (.25 ounce) packages rapid rise yeast
2 teaspoons salt
2 1/2 cups warm water (120 to 130 degrees F/50 degrees C)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

455Calories

13 gProtein

1 gFat

95 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Bread + flourtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together10,383 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Bread and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,383 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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