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Bread Made with Holiness Yeast

Bread made from mashed potatoes, water, salt, sugar, holiness yeast, and flour, baked after rising.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Bread Made with Holiness Yeast

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the mixture

  1. Cook and mash the potatoes.

  2. Add cold water, salt, sugar, and holiness yeast to the mashed potatoes.

  3. Let the mixture stand overnight.

Make the dough

  1. In the morning, stir well and reserve 1 pint for the next baking.

  2. Thicken the mixture with flour to form a dough.

  3. Let the dough rise in a warm place for about 1 hour.

  4. Mould the dough into 2 loaves and let it rise until nearly double.

Bake

  1. Bake in a 300°F (150°C) oven for 45 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. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  2. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Potato + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Add starch and moisture, helping the dough stay soft and hold water.
Holiness yeast
Releases carbon dioxide during rising, making the dough swell and become airy.
Flour
Builds gluten structure so the thickened mixture holds its shape as a dough.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast and contributes sweetness and browning to the crust.

The step that matters

Thickening the mixture with flour. Add flour gradually until the dough is firm but still soft. Too much flour makes the loaves dense and dry, while too little leaves the dough sticky and slow to hold its shape during rising.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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