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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and tea work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 259 recipes. Both carry 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan, which smells thiamin, meat. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare oatmeal according to package instructions.

  2. Cook cracked wheat as directed.

  3. Fry cod in a skillet until golden brown.

  4. Grill mutton chops until cooked to your liking.

  5. Fry eggs sunny-side up or to your preference.

  6. Sauté sliced potatoes in butter until golden and tender.

  7. Mix griddle cake batter and cook on a hot griddle until bubbles form, then flip.

  8. Bake hot rolls according to recipe or package instructions.

  9. Toast bread until golden brown.

  10. Brew coffee and tea as desired.

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 + teatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

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

  2. Wheat + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Potato + teatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Wheat + teatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, mutton, egg, coffee, tea):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Spinachfits less well
  4. Capsicumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, mutton, egg, coffee, tea. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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