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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

  1. Prepare Wheat Flakes and serve with fruit.

  2. Cook oatmeal according to package instructions.

  3. Prepare wheaten grits as directed.

  4. Soak salt mackerel overnight, then cook until done.

  5. Form fish balls and fry until golden brown.

  6. Broil or fry fresh fish until cooked through.

  7. Grill beefsteak to desired doneness.

  8. Fry ham until crispy.

  9. Cook lamb chops on a grill or in a pan.

  10. Fry breakfast bacon until crispy.

  11. Cook Frankfort sausage until browned.

  12. Stew tripe until tender.

  13. Stew pigs' feet until soft.

  14. Cook kidneys in a pan until done.

  15. Serve smoked beef with eggs or cream.

  16. Boil, fry, scramble, or poach eggs as preferred.

  17. Serve eggs on toast or make omelets with 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.

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

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

  2. Wheat + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Wheat + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together345 recipes

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

  5. Wheat + lambtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the parsley

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, fish, ham, lamb, beef, egg, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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