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Hard Yeast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Hops and wheat work together. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Hard Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil hops in water until only 2 quarts remain.

  2. Strain the mixture and stir in wheat or rye meal until thick like batter.

  3. When the mixture is milk-warm, add the yeast and let it stand until very light, about 3 hours.

  4. Work in sifted Indian meal until it forms a stiff dough.

  5. Roll out the dough on a floured board and cut into oblong cakes about 3 inches by 2 inches and half an inch thick.

  6. Lay the cakes on a smooth board dusted with flour.

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. Hops + wheattop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

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