Name: Corn-meal and Wheat Bread
Ingredients: 3 cups wheat flour; 12 ounces corn meal; 1 cake compressed yeast or 1 quart liquid yeast or 1 cake dry yeast or 2 to 4 tablespoons syrup; 1 tablespoon fat; 4 teaspoons salt; boiling water or hot milk (for scalding corn meal)

Why it works: Wheat and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Corn-meal and Wheat Bread

Ingredients

3 cups wheat flour
12 ounces corn meal
1 cake compressed yeast or 1 quart liquid yeast or 1 cake dry yeast or 2 to 4 tablespoons syrup
1 tablespoon fat
4 teaspoons salt
boiling water or hot milk (for scalding corn meal)

Directions

Scald the corn meal by pouring boiling water or hot milk over it.
Add the sweetening agent, salt, and fat, then increase the liquid by ½ cup.
When the mixture is warm, add the yeast mixture and stir thoroughly.
Gradually add the wheat flour and mix until well combined.

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.

Wheat + corntop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together465 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,418 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,955 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + corntop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,165 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).