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Finest Berhice Coffee

A coffee brewed from a mixture of coffee, chicory, and wheat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and chicory work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Finest Berhice Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine coffee, chicory, and wheat in a bowl and mix well to ensure even distribution.

  2. Brew the mixture as you would regular coffee.

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. Coffee + chicorytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Coffee + wheattop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

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

  3. Chicory + wheattop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Coffee
Provides the primary bitter, roasted flavor and aroma of the drink.
Chicory
Adds a roasted, slightly bitter body and earthy depth to the brew.
Wheat
Adds a toasted, nutty note to the flavor of the blend.

“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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