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Nut Bread

A sun-dried bread made from ground nuts, flaked oats, and liquid, topped with flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Nut Bread

Why it works: Walnut and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 311 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Nut Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the almonds, walnuts, and pine nuts until coarse.

  2. Add the flaked oats and mix thoroughly.

  3. Moisten the mixture with milk, water, or fruit juices.

Dry and serve

  1. Spread the mixture in a thin layer on a surface.

  2. Sprinkle the top with St. John's bread flour or chestnut flour.

  3. Expose to sunlight for at least one hour before serving.

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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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. Walnut + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together311 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Almond + pinetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together176 recipes

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

  3. Almond + walnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Almond + oatstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Almond + nutstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Blanched almonds
Provide the main body and nutty flavour of the bread.
Flaked oats
Add bulk and a soft, cereal-like texture to the mixture.
Milk, water, or fruit juices
Moisten the ground nuts and oats so they hold together.

The step that matters

Moisten the mixture evenly. Liquid must be spread through the ground nuts and oats so the mixture binds and dries evenly. Dry or patchy spots can stay soft or spoil, and uneven moisture makes the texture inconsistent.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, walnut, pine, oats, milk, bread):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Brazil nutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, walnut, pine, oats, milk, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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