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Breakfast Tuesday

A breakfast dish of apple, wheat meal porridge, and toasted whole wheat bread with butter and honey.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Breakfast Tuesday

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the raw apple or bake it whole with the skin on.

  2. Prepare whole wheat meal porridge by cooking it in water or milk until thickened.

Serve

  1. Serve the porridge with certified milk.

  2. Toast the whole wheat bread and spread with sweet butter and honey.

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.

Explore the science

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. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Apple + honeytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together569 recipes

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

  5. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole wheat meal
Forms the thickened body of the porridge as its starch gelatinises during cooking.
Milk
Adds creaminess and softness to the porridge and a mild sweetness from milk sugars.
Sweet butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour and softening the toasted bread.
Honey
Adds sweetness and a floral flavour to the toast and spread.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, milk, bread, butter, honey):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

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

“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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