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Mixed Breads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rye and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 404 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mixed Breads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix equal proportions of rye flour, wheat flour, and rice paste to make a good bread.

  2. Alternatively, mix rye, wheat, and barley flour in equal parts.

  3. For a different option, combine half Indian corn flour with half wheat flour.

  4. To use potato flour, mix one part potato flour with three parts wheat flour.

  5. Allow the bread to rest for two days before eating for better flavor.

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. Rye + wheattop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Rice + barleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

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

  3. Wheat + barleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Rye + barleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Corn + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rye, flour, wheat, rice, barley, corn):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against rye, flour, wheat, rice, barley, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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