Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓
Yeast Bread, Not Kneaded
Ingredients
Directions
Scald one pint of milk and one cooking spoon of sugar. Cut a cooking spoonful of butter into what you think enough flour to make a soft batter, and add a scant spoonful of salt. Dissolve one-half a yeast cake in luke warm water. Add one pint of water to the milk, having the mixture luke warm, at least. Pour this on to the flour, turn in your dissolved yeast cake and stir. Add moie flour if necessary until you have quite a stift" batter, though not as stiff as if you kneaded it. Cover and put in a warm place. In the morning cut it down with a knife and form into loaves, if possible not adding any dry flour.
One quart of milk well scalded, one-half yeast cake dis- solved in luke warm water or milk. When the milk is cool, add two tablespoons of sugar and one teaspoon of salt. Pour upon about two quarts of flour, if necessary add more flour
The Victor Fancy Patent is the Best
48 to make a stiff batter. This is not to be moulded but stirred with a spoon. In the morning- add two tablespoons of melt- ed butter. Knead half an hour and let it rise a verj' little, then put in pans and let it rise about one-third of what you wish when baked. Bake in a moderate oven. Bake slowly twenty minutes, browning a little, then cover with paper and bake about forty minutes.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Cake | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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. See the original page.
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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.
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together124,287 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together78,219 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together92,116 recipes
Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
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Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together98,233 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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