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Meatless Breakfast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 261 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Meatless Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Brown codfish and cream in ramekins.

  2. Prepare hominy or macaroni and cheese, then brown in ramekins.

  3. Mix boiled rice or hominy with eggs and bake.

  4. Make fishballs and serve with mayonnaise or sauce tartare.

  5. Prepare omelets with mushrooms, tomatoes, and asparagus.

  6. Broil tomatoes and serve with cream sauce.

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. Rice + asparagustop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together261 recipes

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

  2. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mushroom + asparagustop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together400 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Tomato + asparagustop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

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

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cheese, rice, egg, sauce, mushroom, asparagus):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits about as well
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cheese, rice, egg, sauce, mushroom, asparagus. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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