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Steamed Bkown Bread

A steamed bread made with sweet milk, molasses, Indian meal, rye or Graham flour, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.) · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rye work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 918 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Steamed Bkown Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Mix all ingredients with a spoon.

Steam and bake

  1. Steam for three hours.

  2. Bake for half an hour or more.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

290Calories
11 gProtein
9 gFat
42 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Rye1 slice (32g)83
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Home for the Friendless (Chicago, Ill.). 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. See the original page.

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. Milk + ryetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together918 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Molasses + ryetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Milk + molassestop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Rye
Provides the main body and the characteristic dense, hearty texture of the bread.
Indian meal
Adds coarse grain structure and a crumbly, sturdy texture to the loaf.
Molasses
Adds sweetness, dark color, and a deep caramel-like flavor to the bread.
Sweet milk
Supplies the liquid that hydrates the grains so the batter can set and steam through.

The step that matters

Steaming for three hours. Steaming keeps the loaf moist and cooks the dense grain batter through gently. If the water boils dry or the steam is too weak, the bread can turn out heavy and underdone in the center.

“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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