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Bran Bread

A meal served with bran bread and various accompaniments such as fruit, milk, broth, and desserts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and pear match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 649 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Bran Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Butter a slice of bran bread.

  2. Serve with the juice of a ripe orange, half a scraped apple, a small scraped pear, or a peach.

Build the meals

  1. For a second meal, mix 1 cup of milk with 2 tablespoons of cream and serve with a slice of bran bread.

  2. For a third meal, serve 1 cup of mutton or chicken broth or 1-2 tablespoons of minced underdone meat, along with purée of spinach, mashed cauliflower tops, asparagus tips, stewed celery, and buttered whole-wheat or bran bread.

  3. Include junket and cream, rice-and-milk pudding with stewed prune juice, or baked apple with cream.

  4. For a fourth meal, serve 1-2 cups of milk with additional cream and buttered whole-wheat or bran bread, along with stewed fruit.

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.

Explore the science

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. Apple + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Pear + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Apple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Orange + peachtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together385 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, apple, pear, peach, milk, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, apple, pear, peach, milk, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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