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Southern Breakfast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,497 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

Southern Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare oatmeal according to package instructions and mold it.

  2. Serve with whipped cream on top.

  3. Broil chicken until cooked through.

  4. Make corn meal muffins according to your favorite recipe.

  5. Prepare potato puffs by mashing potatoes and baking until golden.

  6. Brew coffee and serve hot.

  7. Melt chocolate and serve as a drink or dessert.

  8. Make waffles and serve with maple syrup.

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 + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  2. Corn + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  4. Chicken + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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 (cream, chicken, corn, coffee, chocolate, maple syrup):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Sweet potatofits less well
  4. Tomatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, chicken, corn, coffee, chocolate, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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