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Digestible Suet Paste

A dough made from flour, breadcrumbs, suet, and liquid, kneaded into a paste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Digestible Suet Paste

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Combine flour and bread crumbs in a bowl.

  2. Melt the suet and add it to the flour mixture.

  3. Gradually add water or milk until a dough forms.

Shape

  1. Knead lightly and roll out as needed.

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. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + breadtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,383 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Flour
Forms the main structure as its proteins hydrate and bind into dough.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and add body and texture to the dough.
Suet
Fat that coats flour particles and tenderizes the dough by limiting gluten development.

The step that matters

Adding the water or milk gradually. Flour absorbs liquid at different rates, so adding it slowly lets you stop once the dough just holds together. Too much liquid at once makes the dough sticky and can leave it tough after kneading.

“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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