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Artificial Coffee

A drink made by combining artificial coffee with regular coffee and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Artificial Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a large bowl, combine wheat bran, corn meal, and baking molasses.

  3. Add enough water to dampen the mixture.

Bake

  1. Spread the mixture in a baking dish and bake, stirring frequently, until browned.

  2. Remove from the oven and mix in the egg thoroughly.

Serve

  1. To serve, combine 2 parts artificial coffee with 1 part regular coffee and add cream to taste.

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. Wheat + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together465 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  2. Corn + coffeetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together247 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Wheat + coffeetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Molasses + coffeetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together640 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Wheat bran
Forms the bulk of the base and gives the roasted mixture its body and texture.
Baking molasses
Adds sweetness and helps the mixture brown as it bakes.
Corn meal
Adds coarser texture and body to the roasted base.
Egg
Binds the roasted mixture together once it is removed from the oven.
Artificial coffee
Provides the main coffee flavour in the brewed drink.

The step that matters

Bake, stirring frequently, until browned. Dry heat browns the sugars in the molasses and roasts the bran. Stirring often promotes even browning and prevents scorched patches, which would make the flavour bitter.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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