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Cinnamon Bread

A sweet bread made with dough, lard, milk, eggs, baking soda, brown sugar, and cinnamon, glazed with egg white and powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,655 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Cinnamon Bread

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 350°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the dough

  1. Melt the lard in the milk.

  2. Beat the eggs and add them with the milk to the dough.

  3. Dissolve the baking soda in warm water and add it to the mixture.

  4. Stir in the cinnamon.

Bake and finish

  1. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C) like bread.

  2. Glaze with the egg white.

  3. Sprinkle powdered sugar over it.

  4. Serve fresh.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Dough
Forms the structure that the other ingredients are mixed into and baked.
Lard
Adds fat, which makes the crumb tender and moist.
Milk
Adds moisture and helps bind the dough.
Eggs
Add richness and help set the structure as the bread bakes.
Baking soda
Acts as a leavening agent, helping the dough rise and brown.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and moisture, and helps the crust brown.

The step that matters

Dissolve the baking soda fully before adding it. Baking soda must be fully dissolved and mixed evenly through the dough so the rise and browning are even. Undissolved pockets can leave bitter spots or uneven texture.

“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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