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 ↓
Good Made Yeast
Ingredients
Directions
Make the yeast
Heat the mixture over the fire, stirring in 1 pound of flour as it heats.
Allow it to boil for 1 hour.
Remove from heat and let it cool completely.
Store
Once cool, bottle the yeast for future use.
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.
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Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together92,116 recipes
Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Flour
- Adds starch that thickens as it cooks and gives the yeast a food source.
- Moist sugar
- Adds sweetness and gives the yeast cultures a sugar food source to act on.
The step that matters
Cool completely before bottling. Bottling warm liquid traps steam, which causes condensation and can let unwanted microbes grow. Full cooling keeps the yeast stable and safer to store.
“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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