Why it works: Walnut and bread work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 714 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓
Walnut Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Stir the chopped walnuts into the bread sponge.
Proceed with the bread-making process as usual.
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.
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Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together714 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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