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Centennial Biscuit

A biscuit made from corn mush and flour, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,165 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Centennial Biscuit

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a very hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the dough

  1. Prepare corn mush as if for eating with milk.

  2. Let the corn mush cool to lukewarm.

  3. Mix in enough flour to form a stiff dough.

Shape and rise

  1. Shape the dough into biscuits and place them in a baking pan.

  2. Cover and let rise in a warm place overnight.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a very hot oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

  2. Serve hot for breakfast.

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.

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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. Corn + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Corn mush
Provides the base structure and moisture that the flour stiffens into dough.
Flour
Adds structure by binding with the mush so the dough holds its shape.

The step that matters

Overnight rise in a warm place. The dough needs time to ferment and rise gently; too little time or a cold spot leaves biscuits dense, while over-proofing can cause them to collapse.

“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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