Why it works: Biscuit and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 116 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Bread and Breakfast Cakes
Ingredients
Directions
Buttered Toast Raised Biscuit Fried Hasty Pudding Raised Loaf Bread . Rye Muffins . Fried Hominy Squash Biscuit Indian Sponge Cake Huckleberry Short Cake Sally Lunn Cake . Short Cake Toast .
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Huckleberry Muffins Parker House Biscuit Flour and Indian Waffles Corn Bread Loaf . Cream-tartar Biscuit Raised Waffles Country Griddle Cakes Rice Waffles . Graham Puffs Breakfast Puffs Raised Graham Muffins
BREAD AXD BEEAKFAST CAKES— (co?i).
Graham Biscuit
Cracked TMieat Griddles,
Buckwheat Cakes .
Corn Meal Sponge Cake, Xo. 2 .
Cream Toast .
Cora Meal Raised Muf- fins ....
Sponge Corn Cake Muf- fins ....
Toasted Crackers .
Graham Meal Griddles .
Strawberry Short Cake .
Yeast Muffins .
Twin Biscuit .
Rice Griddle Cakes
Hasty Pudding fried in
Bread-Crumb Griddles .
Soda Muffins .
Breakfast Twists .
Cream Muffins
Bread Muffins
Flannel Cakes
iSTew- England Johnny
Cake ....
Brown Bread Brewis
Brown Bread Toast
Corn Meal Crumpets
East-wind Cake
Green Corn Griddles .
Yeast Indian Cake .
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183 191 192 193 198 217 219
Cracked Wheat . . 48 I Fried Cracked Wlieat . 68
TThole Wheat . . 58 j Hominy .... 73
Oatmeal Mush . . 66 I Fried Hominy . . 77
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Biscuit | 1 medium (45g) | 166 |
| Oat | 1/2 cup dry (40g) | 154 |
| Huckleberry | not in our table | 0 |
| Wheat | 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.
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.
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Biscuit + wheattop 9% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together116 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Biscuit + flourtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together889 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Flour + wheattop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,373 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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