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Bread Made with Yeast Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Bread Made with Yeast Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Measure and sift the flour, then set it aside.

  2. Dissolve ⅙ of a yeast cake in a teacup of lukewarm water and add a pinch of sugar.

  3. Once the yeast is dissolved (about 30 minutes), pour it into a large bowl and mix with enough flour to make a thick paste.

  4. Beat the mixture for 1-2 minutes until slightly frothy.

  5. Cover the bowl with a thick cloth and wrap it in another cloth, then place it in a warm, draft-free area.

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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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