Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓
Warm Dishes for Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Broil the beefsteak, chops, chicken, fish, and quail on toast until cooked to your liking.
Fry the pork tenderloins, pig’s feet, oysters, clams, liver, bacon, and chops until golden brown.
Prepare veal cutlets by breading and frying them until crispy.
Cook sausages, fricasseed tripe, and fricasseed kidneys in a skillet until done.
Make turkey or chicken hash and corned beef hash by sautéing the meat with onions and seasoning.
Serve eggs fried, poached, or boiled as desired.
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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Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,417 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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Liver + vealtop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together392 recipes
Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).
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Quail + porktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together308 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together496 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Pork + livertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,606 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
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