Why it works: Flour and sugar 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 ↓
Household Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Place the flour in a large basin and warm it in a warm place or slack oven.
Mix in the salt thoroughly.
Make a deep hollow in the flour, keeping some flour at the bottom.
Cream the yeast with the sugar until liquefied.
Mix the yeast with ¾ pint of tepid water and pour it into the hollow in the flour.
Lightly draw down flour from the sides to create a thin batter.
Dust lightly with flour, cover with a cloth, and let it rise in a warm place for 12-15 minutes until bubbly.
Gradually mix in the remaining flour to form a soft dough, using about 1 pint of tepid water.
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.
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Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together92,116 recipes
Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
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