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Caraway and Anise Buns

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Anise and lemon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 91 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Caraway and Anise Buns

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add lemon extract or grated lemon rind to the bun mixture.

  2. Mix in anise or caraway seed with the dough.

  3. Form the dough into round or oval buns.

  4. Alternatively, shape into long strips like zwieback and toast when one day old.

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. Anise + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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