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Oat Soda Bread Recipe

A rustic oat soda bread you can make in less than an hour. Seriously. Made from a simple ingredient list of rolled oats, flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Oat Soda Bread Recipe

Why it works: Flour and caraway match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,435 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Oat Soda Bread Recipe

Makes one loaf.
Prep10 min
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

980Calories
26 gProtein
37 gFat
134 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
Oat1/2 cup dry (40g)154
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seednot in our table0
Carawaynot in our table0
Poppynot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Flour + carawaytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,721 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Oats + sesametop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Flour + sesametop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the caraway

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Carawaythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, oats, flour, buttermilk, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.