Name: A Few Words About Bread
Prep time: 2 h 50 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 1 loaf
Ingredients: 1½ cups warm water; 2¼ teaspoons instant yeast; ¼ cup sweetener (honey or sugar); 1½ teaspoons salt; 2 tablespoons sunflower oil (or butter, olive oil, or canola oil); 3-3½ cups flour (unbleached all purpose, wheat, rye, etc.)

Why it works: Wheat and rye 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 ↓

A Few Words About Bread

1 loaf

Prep2 hr 50 min

Cook40 min

Ingredients

1½ cups warm water
2¼ teaspoons instant yeast
¼ cup sweetener (honey or sugar)
1½ teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons sunflower oil (or butter, olive oil, or canola oil)
3-3½ cups flour (unbleached all purpose, wheat, rye, etc.)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

872Calories

16 gProtein

27 gFat

140 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Rye	1 slice (32g)	83
Honey	1 tbsp (21g)	64
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0
Wheat	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By naturallyella. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Wheat + ryetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together404 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Sunflower + wheattop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together78 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Flour + ryetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,320 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Sunflower + ryetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together12 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Honey + wheattop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together346 recipes

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

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