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Breakfast, 8.30.

A breakfast of porridge served with milk, cream, cocoa, and either bacon or boiled egg, accompanied by buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Breakfast, 8.30.

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare 1 cup of well-boiled porridge.

  2. Cook 1 slice of fat bacon or boil 1 egg.

  3. Prepare 1 cup of cocoa.

Serve

  1. Serve with 1 cup of new milk and 1 tablespoon of cream.

  2. Serve with 2 slices of brown bread and 2 tablespoons of butter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Milk + cocoatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Porridge
Forms the base of the dish, giving it bulk and a soft, thick texture.
New milk
Adds moisture and mild sweetness, softening the porridge.
Cocoa
Adds chocolate flavour and a deep brown colour.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour across the brown bread.

Swap the cocoa

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

  1. Pecansfits about as well
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Cocoathe original
  4. Peasfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cream, egg, bread, butter. 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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