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A yeast-leavened rye bread made with Indian meal, rye flour, wheat flour, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rye and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 404 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

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Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, combine Indian meal, rye flour, and wheat flour.

  2. Dissolve the yeast in warm milk and add to the flour mixture.

  3. Mix in salt and stir until you have a thick batter.

Rise and bake

  1. Pour the batter into pans and let it rise.

  2. Bake until well done.

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. Rye + wheattop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Rye + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,320 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + wheattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rye + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together918 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Rye flour
Adds its own earthy flavour and a denser crumb than wheat flour alone.
Wheat flour
Provides gluten that gives the loaf structure and helps it hold its rise.
Indian meal
Adds a coarse, grainy texture and golden colour to the crumb.
Yeast
Produces gas as it ferments, lifting the batter so the bread rises.
Warm milk
Hydrates the flour and activates the yeast while adding softness and richness.

The step that matters

Let the batter rise in the pans. Yeast needs time and warmth to produce enough gas for a light loaf. Under-proofed batter bakes dense, while over-proofed batter may collapse in the oven.

“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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