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Delicious Brown Bread

A sweet bread made with Indian meal, molasses, milk, salt, baking powder, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Delicious Brown Bread

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.

Mix the batter

  1. In a large bowl, combine Indian meal, molasses, sweet skim milk, salt, baking powder, and eggs.

  2. Stir until the mixture is as stiff as cake batter.

Bake

  1. Pour the batter into a pudding dish.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) or steam as desired.

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

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

  2. Molasses + milktop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Molasses + eggtop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,879 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Indian meal
Provides the main structure as the starch that sets when baked.
Molasses
Adds sweetness, moisture, and a deep brown color to the cornbread.
Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set into a firm crumb when baked.
Baking powder
Releases gas to lift the batter so it rises and becomes lighter.
Sweet skim milk
Hydrates the meal and supplies the liquid that makes the batter pourable.

The step that matters

Stir until the batter is stiff, then bake promptly. Baking powder starts releasing gas as soon as it is wet, so the batter should be mixed to the right stiffness and put into the oven without delay to keep the rise.

“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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