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Finest Berbice Coffee

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 Berbice Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine coffee and chicory in a bowl.

  2. Add wheat to the mixture.

  3. Stir well to combine all ingredients.

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

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