Name: Veal Breakfasts
Ingredients: Oatmeal; Veal; Potatoes; Biscuit ingredients; Coffee; Ripe Fruit

Why it works: Potato and biscuit work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 137 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Veal Breakfasts

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare oatmeal according to package instructions.
Cook veal in a fricassee style until tender.
Bake potatoes until soft.
Make biscuits light and fluffy.
Brew coffee and serve with milk.
Serve ripe fruit as a side.

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.

Potato + biscuittop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together137 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together167 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Biscuit + coffeetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together115 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Veal + potatotop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together343 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Veal + biscuittop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together113 recipes

Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).