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Breakfast Combinations for Winter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 33 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,659 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Breakfast Combinations for Winter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare oatmeal and serve with cream.

  2. Boil eggs and serve with bread and butter.

  3. Make cocoa without milk.

  4. Stew apples and serve with cracked wheat and cream.

  5. Bake crust muffins and serve with broiled bacon.

  6. Stew potatoes and serve with milk.

  7. Serve a ripe apple with cornmeal mush and cream.

  8. Stew or broil chicken and serve with baked potatoes and buttered toast.

  9. Serve Tokay grapes with cream or top milk.

  10. Broil mutton chop and serve with hominy and coarse sea salt.

  11. Serve bread and butter with an orange.

  12. Prepare farina and serve with cream.

  13. Broil steak or creamed fish and serve with cornmeal muffins and good butter.

  14. Serve clarified apples with wheatena and cream.

  15. Serve whole-meal bread and butter with broiled squab and boiled rice.

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. Grape + appletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Bread + wheattop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

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

  5. Grape + wheattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together300 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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 (grape, cream, egg, bread, butter, apple, wheat):

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Pecansfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

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

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