Name: Finest Java Coffee
Ingredients: ½ coffee; ½ roasted corn

Why it works: Coffee and corn work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 247 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Finest Java Coffee

Ingredients

½ coffee
½ roasted corn

Directions

Combine equal parts coffee and roasted corn.
Brew 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.

Coffee + corntop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together247 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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What each ingredient does

Coffee: Provides the main bitter, roasted flavor and the caffeine base of the drink.
Roasted corn: Adds a toasty, nutty aroma and a mellow sweetness that softens coffee's bitterness.

“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.