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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and pear match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 649 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve a variety of fruits such as oranges, apples, pears, and stewed prunes.

  2. Prepare a cereal or eggs (not both). Cook oatmeal, hominy, cornmeal, rice, or wheat preparations well and season with salt, thin cream, and sugar or butter.

  3. Cook eggs to your preference: soft-boiled, poached, in an omelet, or scrambled.

  4. Serve milk or cocoa to drink, along with stale bread and 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. Apple + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Rice + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together423 recipes

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

  3. Orange + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  5. Orange + peartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together323 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, pear, rice, wheat, cream, sugar, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

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