Name: Breakfast
Ingredients: Tea or coffee (with milk and sugar); White bread, Graham bread, Corn bread, Rolls, or Toast; Oatmeal, Wheaten grits, Indian meal, Hominy, Farina, or Samp; Hash, Eggs, Salt fish, Fresh fish, or Stew

Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Tea or coffee (with milk and sugar)
White bread, Graham bread, Corn bread, Rolls, or Toast
Oatmeal, Wheaten grits, Indian meal, Hominy, Farina, or Samp
Hash, Eggs, Salt fish, Fresh fish, or Stew

Directions

Brew tea or coffee and add milk and sugar to taste.
Serve with your choice of bread or toast.
Prepare porridge using oatmeal, Wheaten grits, Indian meal, Hominy, Farina, or Samp according to package instructions.
Cook hash, eggs, salt fish, fresh fish, or stew as desired.

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.

Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Tea + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together383 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Tea + eggtop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together821 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).