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Warm Dishes for Breakfast

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Warm Dishes for Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Broil the beef steak until cooked to your liking.

  2. Fry the pork tenderloins in a skillet until golden brown.

  3. Fry the pig's feet until crispy.

  4. Fry the oysters until golden and cooked through.

  5. Fry the liver and bacon together until the liver is cooked and bacon is crispy.

  6. Fry the chops until browned and cooked through.

  7. Fry the ham and eggs together until the eggs are cooked to your preference.

  8. Bread and fry the veal cutlets until golden brown.

  9. Cook the sausages in a skillet until browned and cooked through.

  10. Fry the tripe and kidneys until cooked through.

  11. Prepare turkey or chicken hash by mixing cooked meat with seasonings and frying until heated through.

  12. Make corned beef hash by frying corned beef with potatoes until crispy.

  13. Form codfish balls and fry until golden brown.

  14. Cream codfish by cooking it in a creamy sauce until heated through.

  15. Stew meats and serve on toast.

  16. Poach eggs and serve on toast.

  17. Make omelettes by whisking eggs and cooking them in a skillet.

  18. Boil eggs plain until desired doneness.

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. Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  2. Liver + vealtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).

  3. Pork + turkeytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together830 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Pork + livertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  5. Beef + turkeytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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