Name: Short Process or Straight Dough
Ingredients: 1 cup lukewarm liquid; 4 to 4 cake compressed yeast or 1 teaspoon salt; 2 to 4 tablespoons liquid yeast or 3 tablespoons sugar; 1 cup potato ferment; 4 tablespoons shortening (if desired); 8 to 4 cups sifted flour

Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Short Process or Straight Dough

Ingredients

1 cup lukewarm liquid
4 to 4 cake compressed yeast or 1 teaspoon salt
2 to 4 tablespoons liquid yeast or 3 tablespoons sugar
1 cup potato ferment
4 tablespoons shortening (if desired)
8 to 4 cups sifted flour

Directions

Soften the yeast with a small amount of the lukewarm liquid.
In a separate bowl, combine the remaining lukewarm liquid with salt, sugar, and shortening.
Add the softened yeast to the liquid mixture and stir well.
Gradually add the sifted flour, mixing until the dough is the right consistency.
Knead the dough for 5 to 10 minutes until smooth and elastic.
Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place (80°F to 88°F) until doubled in size, about 1 to 2 hours.
If the dough is too soft, add more flour; if too stiff, add a little water and knead until it no longer sticks.

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.

Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,355 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sugar + potatotop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,032 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).