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Special Bread with Lentils and Wheat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lentils and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 255 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Special Bread with Lentils and Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind lentils to retain albumenoids.

  2. Mill wheat and remove bran.

  3. Mix lentils and wheat flour in a 1:2 ratio.

  4. Add coarse sea salt to the dry ingredients.

  5. Infuse hops in water and strain to create malt syrup.

  6. Combine malt syrup with baking water.

  7. Add sufficient yeast for fermentation.

  8. Knead 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.

  1. Lentils + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together255 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Lentils + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Wheat + malttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Flour + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,540 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lentils

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, hops, malt, syrup):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Lentilsthe original

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

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