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Big Sur Bakery Hide Bread Recipe

From the Big Sur Bakery cookbook, a seed-packed pocket bread recipe contributed by a good friend of the bakery. Sesame, sunflower, flax and poppy seeds, millet, oat bran, and a bit of beer impressively cram themselves into these delicious, hearty rolls.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and amaranth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 22 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By 101cookbooks. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Flour + amaranthtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sesame + sunflowertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Flour + buttermilktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Beer + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together680 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the amaranth

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sesame, sunflower, beer, buttermilk, butter):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Amaranththe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sesame, sunflower, beer, buttermilk, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).