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Sunday Breakfast No. 1

A breakfast menu featuring cracked wheat, beefsteaks, baked potatoes, biscuits, coffee, and ripe fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Sunday Breakfast No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook the cracked wheat according to package instructions.

  2. Broil the beefsteaks to your desired doneness.

  3. Bake the potatoes until tender.

  4. Prepare the biscuits ahead of time and reheat before serving.

Serve

  1. Brew the coffee and serve with ripe fruit.

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. Wheat + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Wheat + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Potato + biscuittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Wheat + coffeetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Cracked wheat
Provides the bulk and chewy, nutty texture of the breakfast grain.
Beefsteaks
Supply the main protein and savory, browned flavor from broiling.
Baked potatoes
Provide starchy bulk, with a soft, fluffy interior once baked until tender.
Biscuits
Add a soft, flaky, buttery-tasting bread element to the meal.

The step that matters

Broil the beefsteaks to your desired doneness. Broiling is fast and intense, so the steaks can go from rare to overcooked quickly. Checking doneness early keeps the meat juicy and tender rather than dry and tough.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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