Skip to main content
Bread

Another Simple Yeast

A simple yeast dough made with flour, water, salt, brown sugar, and yeast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Another Simple Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the dough

  1. Stir the flour into the lukewarm water.

  2. Add the salt and brown sugar, then mix well.

  3. Stir in the yeast until fully combined.

Rise and store

  1. Cover and let it rise until well risen.

  2. Once risen, store in a cool place.

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.

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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour
Provides the structure that holds the dough together as it rises.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and become airy.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and feeds the yeast, supporting rising and browning.

The step that matters

Let the dough rise until well risen. Yeast gives off carbon dioxide that inflates the dough's gluten network. Underproofed dough stays dense, while overproofed dough can 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.

You might also like

CornbreadCornbread345 recipesBread PuddingBread Pudding336 recipesMilk Bread RollsMilk Bread Rolls242 recipesPotato BreadPotato Bread124 recipes