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Nut Bread

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Nut Bread

Why it works: Bread and nuts work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 174 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Nut Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make brown or white bread dough as usual.

  2. Before forming into loaves, add a generous handful of pecan nuts to one loaf.

  3. Shape the dough into a loaf and bake.

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. Bread + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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