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Breakfast

A simple breakfast featuring cocoa, bread, butter, milk, biscuit, toast, brown bread, egg, and bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a light early breakfast with a cup of cocoa and a slice of bread with butter, or a glass of milk with a biscuit.

  2. For variety, include a slice of dry toast with butter or a slice of brown bread (not new) and a lightly-boiled egg or a slice of fat fried bacon.

  3. Sip one cup of cocoa or milk and water after eating.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Cocoa + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

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

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Adds moisture and mild sweetness, making a soft, drinkable base for the meal.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour into the bread or toast.
Egg
Adds protein that sets when lightly cooked, giving the plate substance.
Bacon
Adds fat and salty, browned flavour from frying.

Swap the cocoa

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

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

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