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Breakfast: Corn-bread, with Butter and Honey

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and dates work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 318 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Breakfast: Corn-bread, with Butter and Honey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare cornbread according to your favorite recipe.

  2. Serve the cornbread warm with butter and honey.

  3. Enjoy with fresh figs and dates.

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. Fig + datestop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together318 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Honey + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

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

  3. Butter + honeytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Honey + datestop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Butter + figtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cornbread, butter, honey, fig):

  1. Grapefits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cornbread, butter, honey, fig. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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