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Grated Flour

A dish made by boiling flour in water, grating it, reboiling with water, sweetened with sugar and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Grated Flour

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the flour bag

  1. Tie the flour in a linen cloth tightly.

  2. Dip the cloth in cold water and then in flour to form a crust.

Boil and grate

  1. Boil the bag in a gallon of water until it becomes a hard, dry mass.

  2. Grate 2 tablespoons of the boiled flour and boil in 1 pint of water.

Finish

  1. Flavor and sweeten to taste.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  5. Wheat + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together681 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Fine wheat flour
Forms a starchy outer crust that boils into a hard, dry mass.
Grated flour
Its cooked starch thickens the water it is boiled in.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, adjusted to taste.
Cream
Adds richness and fat to the drink.

The step that matters

Boiling the floured bag until hard and dry. Boiling cooks the starch in the flour crust and dries it into a firm mass that can be grated. If it boils too briefly, the starch stays raw and the grated flour will taste pasty when boiled in water.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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