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Be Sure That Yeast or Yeast Cakes Are Fresh

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Be Sure That Yeast or Yeast Cakes Are Fresh

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Mix the dry yeast with warm water and let it sit until bubbly.

  2. Combine the yeast mixture with flour and milk, mixing until smooth.

  3. Knead the dough for a few minutes until it becomes elastic.

  4. Let the dough rise in a warm place for 9 to 10 hours until it doubles in size.

  5. Shape the dough into small loaves and place them in pans.

  6. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.

  7. Allow the bread to cool quickly after removing it from 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.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Hard wheat + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Hard wheat + milktop 53% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

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