Name: Soda Bread Op Corn Meal
Ingredients: 1 cup sweet milk; 1 cup sour; 1 teaspoon soda; 3 cups indian meal; 1 cup meal being omitted; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon of butter; a teaspoon of hot water; 1 tea- i; 1 table- spoon butter; 2 richer ^ke; 3 eggs; 1 scant qt; 2 level teaspoons soda; 1 part flour; 3 parts graham; 3 preceding recipes add 2

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 ↓

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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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

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

Smell alikelow

Cooked together106,462 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour 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

What each ingredient does

Indian meal: Provides the bulk and coarse, crumbly texture of the loaf.
Sour milk: Its acidity reacts with the soda to produce gas that lifts the loaf.
Soda: Reacts with the acid in the sour milk to leaven the bread.
Butter: Adds fat, softening the crumb and adding richness.
Sweet milk: Adds moisture and softness to the batter.
Wheat flour: Adds gluten that gives the loaf some structure and holds it together.

“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.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
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

Soda Bread Op Corn Meal