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Eight Strand Plaited Bread

This dish is my Italian adaptation of Paul Hollywood's eight strand bread.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Eight Strand Plaited Bread

Serves 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

516Calories
13 gProtein
2 gFat
110 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 9 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0
Toppingnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Rosemary + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Rosemary + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Sunflower + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sunflower + rosemarytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the rosemary

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, flour, sugar, sunflower, olive, garlic):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Rosemarythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, flour, sugar, sunflower, olive, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.