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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 388 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare chop, steak, or eggs for breakfast.

  2. Cook bacon until just done, avoiding high salt.

  3. Serve bran or almond biscuits, or gluten bread as a side.

  4. Toast thin slices of ordinary bread on both sides until browned, if desired.

  5. Spread fresh butter on the bread.

  6. Brew coffee, cocoa, or tea without sugar, adding a small amount of cream.

  7. If beverages are unpalatable, sweeten with a little pure glycerine.

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. Biscuit + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Coffee + cocoatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Coffee + teatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

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

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

  5. Cocoa + teatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, biscuit, almond, bread, butter, coffee, tea):

  1. Hazelnutfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, biscuit, almond, bread, butter, coffee, tea. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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