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Breakfast

Breakfast

A simple breakfast plate of bacon, egg, toast, carrots, butter, cream, and coffee.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Cook

  1. Cook the bacon until crispy.

  2. Fry the egg to your liking.

  3. Toast the bread.

  4. Boil or steam the carrots until tender.

Serve

  1. Serve with butter, cream, and coffee.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Bread + carrottop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,628 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon
Renders fat and browns to crispness, adding savory flavor and texture to the plate.
Egg
Sets on heating, providing protein structure and richness to the breakfast.
Bread
Toasting browns its surface, adding crunch and a toasted aroma.
Carrots
Softening by boiling or steaming turns their starches tender and mildly sweet.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavor across the toast and carrots.

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

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