Name: Another Receipt for Economical Bread
Ingredients: 8 pounds wheat flour; 4 pounds barley flour; 2 pounds rye flour; 2 pounds tick bean flour; yeast

Why it works: Wheat and rye match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 404 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Another Receipt for Economical Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the wheat flour, barley flour, rye flour, and tick bean flour together.
Add yeast as you would for regular wheaten dough.
Knead the dough until it is neither too hard nor too soft.
Alternatively, mix 8 pounds of wheat flour with 4 pounds of barley flour and 4 pounds of oatmeal, and prepare in the same manner.

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 + ryetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together404 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Wheat + barleytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together185 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).
Barley + ryetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together66 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Flour + ryetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,320 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).