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Fried Bread with Cinnamon

Fried bread pieces dusted with cinnamon and served with hot syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Fried Bread with Cinnamon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break stale bread into 1-inch pieces.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in a mixture of butter and lard, stirring as it cooks.

  2. When done, pour 1 tablespoon of water on one side, cover, and steam for a moment.

  3. Lift the bread, dust with cinnamon, and serve with hot syrup.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cinnamon + syruptop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together990 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + cinnamontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Bread + cinnamontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Butter + syruptop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,796 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Dry, firm pieces crisp up in hot fat rather than turning greasy or soggy.
Butter
Adds fat for frying and a rich flavor that helps the bread brown.
Lard
Adds fat with a high smoke point, helping the bread fry evenly without burning.
Cinnamon
Adds warm aroma and flavor to the fried bread's surface.

The step that matters

Covering and steaming after the water is added. Water hitting hot fat spatters and turns to steam; covering traps that steam so the inside softens while the outside stays crisp. Covering too long can make the crust soggy.

“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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