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Baked Bbown Bbead

A baked bread made with rye meal, molasses, sweet and sour milk, soda, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,202 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Baked Bbown Bbead

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine four large coffee cups of rye meal, one teacup of molasses, one teacup of sour milk, one and one half pints of sweet milk, and boiling water.

  2. Mix in two teaspoons soda and one teaspoon salt.

  3. Bake for four hours.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

405Calories
16 gProtein
16 gFat
52 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Sour Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coffeenot 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 Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River. 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.

  1. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  2. Coffee + molassestop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together640 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  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

Indian meal
Forms the bulk and crumb structure of the loaf.
Molasses
Adds sweetness, moisture, and a dark color with a rich flavor.
Sour milk
Its acidity reacts with the soda to help the loaf rise and keeps it tender.
Soda
Reacts with the acid in sour milk to release gas that leavens the bread.
Sweet milk
Hydrates the meal and molasses, supplying moisture for the batter.

The step that matters

Mixing in the soda. Soda releases gas as soon as it meets the acid in sour milk, so the batter should go into the oven promptly to trap that gas before it escapes and the rise is lost.

“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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