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Sauerkraut Rye Bread

"This bread is very moist and tasty. Who doesn't love the mouth-watering aroma of sauerkraut?"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Sauerkraut Rye Bread

Why it works: Caraway and rye share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sauerkraut Rye Bread

1 - 1 1/2 pound loaf
Prep10 min
Cook2 hr 50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

747Calories
16 gProtein
14 gFat
138 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Rye1 slice (32g)83
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sauerkrautnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Caraway Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Caraway + ryetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Caraway + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  4. Rye + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,320 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Molasses + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the caraway

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (molasses, butter, sugar, rye, flour, bread):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Carawaythe original
  4. Clovefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against molasses, butter, sugar, rye, flour, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.