Why it works: Milk and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Genuine Vienna Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Set a slack sponge with 2 quarts of lukewarm sweet milk and 2 ounces of compressed yeast.
When the sponge begins to bubble, add 2 quarts of sweet milk, 4 ounces of salt, 1 pound of sugar, and 1 pound of lard.
Mix to form a medium dough and scale it off immediately.
Round the dough on a bench and let it rest until it starts to rise.
Mold the dough into long loaves.
Place the loaves in cloths or baskets until they are properly proofed.
Bake the loaves directly on the oven bottom.
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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Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together77,875 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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