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Pullman Bread

A yeast bread made with lard, sugar, and salt, baked at 350°F.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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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 ↓

Pullman Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sponge

  1. Dissolve the yeast in warm water.

  2. Add enough flour to make a soft batter.

  3. Let the batter stand in a warm place for about 20 minutes.

Make the dough

  1. Add the remaining water, sugar, and salt.

  2. Add more flour.

  3. Incorporate the lard.

  4. Mix until the dough is medium firm.

  5. Let the dough rise.

Shape and bake

  1. Cut the dough over twice.

  2. Pass the dough through rollers 12 times.

  3. Scale the dough.

  4. Pan the dough.

  5. Prove the dough.

  6. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until golden.

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. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Yeast
Ferments the batter, producing gas that makes the bread rise.
Flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the bread its structure.
Lard
Adds fat that tenderizes the crumb and softens the texture.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast and contributes sweetness and browning in the crust.
Warm water
Hydrates the flour and activates the yeast.

The step that matters

Mix until the dough is medium firm. Too little mixing leaves the gluten underdeveloped, so the dough cannot hold gas well, while overmixing makes it tough. Judging firmness controls how the loaf rises and sets.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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