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Hominy Bread

A baked bread made with hominy, butter, eggs, milk, and cornmeal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Hominy Bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the batter

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. In a bowl, mix the hot hominy with the butter.

  3. Beat the eggs until light and stir them into the hominy mixture.

  4. Gradually add the milk while stirring.

  5. Mix in the corn meal until the batter is the consistency of a rich custard.

  6. If the batter is too thick, add a little more milk.

Bake

  1. Pour the batter into a deep baking pan.

  2. Bake for about 1 hour, allowing it to rise without too much heat at the top.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Butter + corntop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs add structure and help the bread set and rise as it bakes.
Fine hominy or grits
Cooked corn starch gives the bread its body and a soft, custard-like crumb.
Milk
Milk supplies the liquid that loosens the batter and adds moisture and richness.
Corn meal
Corn meal thickens the batter and adds coarser corn texture and flavor.
Butter
Butter adds fat, which softens the crumb and contributes richness.

The step that matters

Keep the oven heat moderate while baking. Too much heat at the top sets the crust before the custard-like batter has risen and cooked through, so the bread can crack or stay dense inside.

“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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