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Soub Milk Biscuit

A biscuit made with sour milk, flour, and baking soda.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Soub Milk Biscuit

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

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

Make the dough

  1. Mix the baking soda into the sour milk until it froths.

  2. Stir the frothy milk into the flour quickly.

Shape and bake

  1. Shape the dough and bake in the preheated 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.

  1. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour
Forms the main structure of the biscuit as its proteins and starch set in the oven.
Sour milk
Its acidity reacts with the baking soda and adds moisture and tenderness to the dough.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acid in the sour milk to release carbon dioxide, which makes the biscuits rise.

The step that matters

Stir the frothy milk into the flour quickly. Once the baking soda and acid have reacted, the gas bubbles begin escaping. Mixing quickly and gently keeps the bubbles in the dough so the biscuits rise well, and overworking the flour develops gluten, which makes them tough.

“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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