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Breakfast

A selection of breakfast meats, fish, eggs, and accompaniments.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 896 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the meats and fish

  1. Broil or fry salt mackerel and fresh fish.

  2. Cook beefsteak, ham, lamb chops, and breakfast bacon to your preference.

  3. Fry frankfort sausage, tripe, and pigs' feet.

  4. Stew kidneys and serve with smoked beef and eggs or cream.

Prepare the eggs

  1. Prepare eggs by boiling, frying, scrambling, or poaching on toast.

  2. Make plain omelets or add cheese, parsley, and jelly.

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.

  1. Lamb + beeftop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Fish + beeftop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Fish + lambtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Beef + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,193 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set and bind the dish, providing structure when cooked and richness in omelets.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the eggs and kidneys.
Cheese
Melts into omelets, adding fat, savoriness and a creamy texture.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, ham, lamb, beef, egg, cream, cheese):

  1. Pepperfits about as well
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, ham, lamb, beef, egg, cream, cheese. 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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