Name: Wheat and Sweet Potato Bread
Ingredients: 6 cups all-purpose flour; 1 quart sweet potatoes, mashed and passed through a sieve

Why it works: Flour and sweet potato work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 627 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Wheat and Sweet Potato Bread

Ingredients

6 cups all-purpose flour
1 quart sweet potatoes, mashed and passed through a sieve

Directions

Boil sweet potatoes until tender but not watery.
Mash the sweet potatoes and pass them through a sieve.
Combine the sweet potato pulp with the flour to make the bread dough.

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.

Flour + sweet potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together627 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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Wheat and Sweet Potato Bread