Name: Cocoa-nut Bread
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup finely grated coconut or 1 cup coconut milk; Water as needed

Why it works: Flour and coconut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,315 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Cocoa-nut Bread

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup finely grated coconut or 1 cup coconut milk
Water as needed

Directions

The book says “a brisk oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the dough

Mix the flour with the finely grated coconut or use coconut milk to make the dough.
Knead until smooth and form into a loaf.

Rise and bake

Place the dough in a greased loaf pan.
Let it rise until doubled in size.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown.

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.

Flour + coconuttop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,315 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour: Forms the main structure of the dough as its proteins and starches set during baking.
Finely grated coconut or coconut milk: Adds moisture and coconut flavor to the dough.

“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.