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Dyspepsia Bread, to Make

A simple bread made with wheat flour, warm water, fresh yeast, and optional molasses.

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 ↓

Dyspepsia Bread, to Make

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the dough

  1. In a large bowl, combine the wheat flour and warm water.

  2. Add the fresh yeast and molasses, if using, and mix well.

  3. Let the mixture rise until it has doubled in size.

Bake

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Once risen, place the dough in the oven 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).

  2. Flour + molassestop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,429 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Wheat + molassestop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together702 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Unbolted wheat flour
Provides the main structure of the dough once it is mixed with water.
Fresh yeast
Ferments the dough, producing gas that makes it rise.
Molasses
Adds sweetness and a darker color, and feeds the yeast.

The step that matters

Let the dough rise until doubled. The yeast needs time to produce enough gas to lighten the dough. Under-rising leaves the bread dense, while letting it rise too long can weaken the structure so it collapses in the oven.

“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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