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Fried Breakfast Vegetables

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Eggplant and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 214 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Fried Breakfast Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare your vegetables by slicing them as desired.

  2. For one method, roll the vegetables in dry flour seasoned with salt and pepper.

  3. Fry in just enough fat to prevent burning.

  4. For another method, bread the vegetables and fry them like doughnuts.

  5. Alternatively, dip them in batter and fry.

  6. Use any leftover boiled vegetables, minced and warmed with cream or butter, or heated in white sauce for variety.

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. Eggplant + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tomato + eggplanttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Tomato + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

  4. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  5. Potato + parsniptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, tomato, eggplant, sugar, cucumber, parsnip, oyster):

  1. Cherryfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, tomato, eggplant, sugar, cucumber, parsnip, oyster. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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