Name: Another Brown Bread
Ingredients: 2 quarts of milk; 1 cup of molasses; 1 tablespoon of baking soda; 1 teaspoon of salt; Indian meal (cornmeal); rye meal; enough water to make a soft dough

Why it works: Milk and rye work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 918 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Another Brown Bread

Ingredients

Directions

In a large bowl, combine the milk, molasses, baking soda, and salt.
Add equal parts of Indian meal and rye meal until the mixture forms a soft dough.
Transfer the dough to iron pans.
Cover and let it rise overnight in the oven.

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.

Milk + ryetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together918 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Molasses + ryetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together804 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Milk + molassestop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,243 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).