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The San Marco Breakfast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,497 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

The San Marco Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve fresh oranges as a side.

  2. Brew tea, coffee, and chocolate to taste.

  3. Prepare hominy and oatmeal according to package instructions.

  4. Warm hot rolls and toast until golden.

  5. Broil shad until cooked through.

  6. Serve smoked herring and smoked salmon cold.

  7. Fry codfish balls until golden brown.

  8. Mix codfish with cream and heat gently.

  9. Prepare codfish hash by frying with potatoes and onions.

  10. Fry oysters until crispy.

  11. Stew oysters in a light broth.

  12. Broil salt mackerel until flaky.

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. Coffee + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  2. Tea + coffeetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

  3. Salmon + oystertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Orange + teatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together333 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Tea + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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 (tea, coffee, chocolate, cream, salmon, oyster):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tea, coffee, chocolate, cream, salmon, oyster. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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