Name: Wheat Bread
Ingredients: one pint milk; one pint of water of same temperature; one tablespoon salt; a piece of shortening; a cup of warm water; one heaping tablespoon sugar; one-half cakes com- pressed yeast; 15 yeast has begun to foam the other ingredients will be cool enough to mix wi; butter and lard the size of an egg

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 ↓

Wheat Bread

Ingredients

one pint milk
one pint of water of same temperature
one tablespoon salt
a piece of shortening
a cup of warm water
one heaping tablespoon sugar
one-half cakes com- pressed yeast
15 yeast has begun to foam the other ingredients will be cool enough to mix wi
butter and lard the size of an egg

Directions

One pint milk, almost to the boiling point, one pint of water of same temperature, one heaping tablespoon sugar, one tablespoon salt, a piece of shortening (butter and lard the size of an egg), one and one-half cakes com- pressed yeast. Mix together the hot milk, hot water, sugar, salt and shortening and while this is cooling have the yeast in a cup of warm water and by the time the
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yeast has begun to foam the other ingredients will be cool enough to mix with the yeast. Then add enough flour to mold down rather stiff. Put to rise, which usu- ally takes about five hours, then shape into loaves and let rise again in the tins ready to bake.
Mrs. H. O. Day.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

948Calories

27 gProtein

39 gFat

120 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Lard	1 tbsp (12.8g)	115
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
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.

By Chicago. Bethany union church. Woman's society. [from old catalog]. 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.

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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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).