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Salt-Rising Bread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Salt-Rising Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a clean bowl, stir warm water and salt to create a thick batter.

  2. Set the bowl in a pan of warm water for 2 to 4 hours until it begins to rise.

  3. Mix milk and boiling water in a bread pan, adding lime water if desired.

  4. When the mixture cools to milk-warm, stir in the risen batter.

  5. Add enough flour to form a medium batter and let it rise for another 2 to 4 hours.

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. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Lime + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + limetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together700 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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 lime

The recipe marks lime as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, flour):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Limethe original

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

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