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Sunday, Januaky

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Why it works: Cocoa and coffee work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 91 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Sunday, Januaky

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fried Codfish. Sheep's Head Stew

  2. Bread and Butter. with Soda Biscuit Dumplings.

  3. Coffee. Baked Potatoes.

  4. Bread and Grated Cheese. Cocoa.

  5. Potato and Onio^n Salad.

  6. Broiled Salt Pork. Bread.

  7. Corn Mush with Pudding Sauce (p. 112).

  8. •Pvr>+0i/la TTofc CafbO- Cost

  9. Proteids. Fats. hydrate8. in

  10. oz. oz. oz. Cents.

  11. 2 Ibs. Corn Meal 3.14 1.20 22.40 6

  12. Iqt. Skim Milk 1.08 .24 1.65 4

  13. 1 pt. Whole Milk .58 .62 .83 3^

  14. ^Ib.Sugar - -- ---- 7.92

  15. 3 Ibs. Bread 2.88 .24 24.90 6TS

  16. 1 Ib. Salt Codfish 4.80 .... .... 8

  17. J^lb. Butter 6.66 .... 12

  18. M lb. Skim Cheese 1.20 .53 .20 2

  19. 4 Ibs. Potatoes 1.28 .... 13.25 5

  20. Mlb. Salt Pork 12 3.20 .... 3

  21. J41b. Suet 3.92 .... 2

  22. %lb. Flour 1.44 .18 8.58 2

  23. 1 Sheep's Head, assumed to

  24. contain 1^ Ibs. meat 4.08 1.44 .... 12

  25. Cocoa Shells .... .... 2

  26. Coffee .... .... 3f

  27. Total 2058 1&23 79.73 78

  28. Required 19.19 12.42 78.03 78

  29. Bills of Fare, Class L 161

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

199Calories
3 gProtein
9 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Coffeenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Abel, Mary Hinman, b. 1850. 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. See the original page.

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. Cocoa + coffeetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Onion + cocoatop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Onion + coffeetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together232 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cocoa, coffee):

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

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

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