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To Make Excellent Bread Without Yeast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,373 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

To Make Excellent Bread Without Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald a double handful of Indian meal in a bowl.

  2. Add a little salt and enough cold water to make it warmer than new milk.

  3. Stir in wheat flour until the mixture is as thick as family pudding.

  4. Set the mixture aside by the fire to rise for about half an hour.

  5. If it draws thin, sprinkle a little fresh flour on top and turn the pot to prevent sticking.

  6. After three to four hours, when it has risen and fermented, make it into a soft dough.

  7. Flour a pan, place the dough in it, and cover it.

  8. Set it before the fire, turning it around to warm evenly.

  9. In about half an hour, it will be light enough to 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. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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