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Marie Paidar

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Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Marie Paidar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. SOFT GRAHAM BREAD— Three cups of graham flour, one cup of white flour, one teaspoon of salt, one-half cup of molasses, or one- fourth cup of sugar, one cake of yeast, one and one-half cups of warm water, two tablespoons of butter. Dissolve the yeast with a little of the lukewarm water, mix with other ingredients and beat well. Cover and set in warm place. When the dough is light beat again and pour into bread pans, filling them half full. When light bake in moderate oven.

  2. JULIA M. FARA.

  3. CURRANT BREAD — Dissolve a cake of compressed yeast and a tablespoon of sugar in a cup of lukewarm water and one cup of milk that has been scalded and cooled. Cream three-fourths cup of sugar with four tablespoons of butter and add with two cups of flour to the liquid. Beat well. Cover and put in warm place to raise for about one and one-half hours. Add one cup of floured raisins and four cups of flour and one teaspoon of salt, knead lightly and place in a greased bowl to raise again for about an hour. Mold into loaves, and put into greased pans and let raise one hour. Beat an egg with a little warm water. Brush over loaves. Bake three-fourths of an hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

875Calories
22 gProtein
21 gFat
151 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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Cakenot 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 Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Molasses + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Raisinthe original
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Peachfits less well

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

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