Name: Fruit Bread with Molasses
Ingredients: 10 pounds roll dough; 1 pint New Orleans molasses; ½ pound currants or raisins

Why it works: Molasses and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,817 recipes. The science ↓

Fruit Bread with Molasses

Ingredients

10 pounds roll dough
1 pint New Orleans molasses
½ pound currants or raisins

Directions

Prepare 10 pounds of roll dough.
Mix in 1 pint of New Orleans molasses.
Fold in ½ pound of currants or raisins.
Shape the dough and let it rise before baking.

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.

Molasses + curranttop 21% of all pairs

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Cooked together1,817 recipes

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Fruit Bread with Molasses