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Bread Raised Once

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,355 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Bread Raised Once

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm and lightly grease the baking pans.

  2. Sift 3 quarts of flour into a large bowl and make a well in the center.

  3. Add 2 tablespoons of fine salt into the well.

  4. Slowly pour in 1 quart of warm water while stirring with one hand until a thin batter forms.

  5. Add 1 pint of potato yeast or 1 cup of hop yeast and mix thoroughly.

  6. Gradually add more flour until a stiff dough forms.

  7. Transfer the dough to a floured surface and knead vigorously for 20 minutes.

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 + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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