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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 54 ingredients
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Why it works: Green tea and tea share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare oatmeal and grits according to package instructions, serve with cream.

  2. Brew green, English, breakfast, or Japan tea, and serve coffee and chocolate as beverages.

  3. Broil beefsteak and serve with tomato sauce or onions.

  4. Cook veal cutlets and serve plain or breaded.

  5. Prepare mutton chops plain, breaded, or with tomato sauce.

  6. Cook lamb chops, calf's liver, and mutton kidneys as desired.

  7. Fry or broil trout, sheephead, redfish, and croaker.

  8. Prepare salt fish with cream and codfish balls.

  9. Cook eggs as ordered and serve with Saratoga chips and potatoes.

  10. Serve broiled, raw, stewed, or fried oysters.

  11. Prepare corned beef hash with stewed kidneys and tripe.

  12. Fry sausages and serve with fried hominy.

  13. Serve Boston brown bread, Vienna rolls, and French rolls.

  14. Make egg muffins and graham or plain bread.

  15. Toast bread and serve dry or with milk.

  16. Prepare buckwheat cakes and serve with maple syrup and honey.

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. Green tea + teatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

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

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

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

  4. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, green tea, tea, coffee, chocolate, tomato, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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