Name: Yankee Biscuit
Ingredients: one cupful of sugar; one quart of flour; one cupful of yeast; five potatoes; lard the size of a walnut; salt

Why it works: Potato and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 342 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Yankee Biscuit

Ingredients

Directions

Yeast for it — Five potatoes, mashed smooth, one cupful of sugar, one of yeast. To mahe the biscuit — Use one quart of flour, one cupful of yeast, lard the size of a walnut, pinch of salt ; knead to a stiff dough with very cold water, roU out, and cut with a biscuit cutter ; put to rise about two hours before baking.
BREAD RECIPES. 53

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

806Calories

18 gProtein

17 gFat

145 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Lard	1 tbsp (12.8g)	115
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Walnut	1 walnut half (4g)	26
Salt	1 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 Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo. 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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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.

Potato + walnuttop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together342 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Flour + walnuttop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,873 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Flour + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,355 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sugar + walnuttop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,147 recipes

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