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Yeast, Bread, Rolls, Gems, Etc

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Why it works: Potato and biscuit work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 137 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Yeast, Bread, Rolls, Gems, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 7 Potato Yeast— No. 3

  2. .. 7

  3. BROWN BBEAD,

  4. Brown Bread — No. 1 8

  5. Brown Bread — No. 2 9

  6. Brown Bread— No. 3 9

  7. licA\n Bread — No. 4 9

  8. Biscuit (raised) — No. 1 9

  9. Biscuit (raised)— No. 2. . . 10

  10. Brown Corn Bread 10

  11. Boston Brown Bread 10

  12. Baking Powder Biscuit. .. . 10

  13. Coleman Bannock 11

  14. Corn Meal Puffs 11

  15. French EoUs 11

  16. Graham Bread — No. 1. . . . 11

  17. Graham Bread — No. 2 12

  18. Graham Bread — No. 3 12

  19. Graham Gems — No. 1 12

  20. Graham Gems — No. 2 12

  21. Graham Gems — No. 3 13

  22. Johnny Cake — No. 1 13

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

782Calories
20 gProtein
9 gFat
154 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
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 Chippewa Falls, Wis. Episcopal church. Ladies aid society. [from old catalog]. 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. Potato + biscuittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Bread + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, biscuit):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, biscuit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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