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Beans and Brown Bread

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and biscuit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 49 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Beans and Brown Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the beans in water until tender.

  2. Prepare the brown bread according to your favorite recipe.

  3. Brew the coffee and serve with cream.

  4. Make light, fluffy biscuits and serve warm.

  5. Drizzle melted maple sugar over the biscuits before serving.

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. Beans + biscuittop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Bread + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Beans + coffeetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together289 recipes

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

  5. Beans + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, coffee, cream, biscuit, sugar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, coffee, cream, biscuit, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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