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Cocoa-nut Bread or Rolls

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cocoa and milk work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 643 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cocoa-nut Bread or Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the milk slowly in a pot until warm, then add the grated cocoa-nut.

  2. Let the mixture simmer gently for about 45 minutes without reducing the quantity significantly.

  3. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly, then strain through a fine sieve or cloth to extract the flavored milk.

  4. Use the warm milk with yeast and flour as you would for common bread, blending thoroughly.

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. Cocoa + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cocoa + flourtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, flour):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Milletfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

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

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