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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 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 ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the beefsteak to your liking.

  2. Toast the snipe and serve it on toast.

  3. Slice the tomatoes and serve fresh.

  4. Prepare the stewed corn and apple sauce.

  5. Warm the rolls before serving.

  6. Brew coffee, tea, or chocolate as desired.

  7. Prepare the chicken pot pie and bake until golden.

  8. Make escaloped tomatoes and serve hot.

  9. Boil the okra and corn on the cob until tender.

  10. Cook summer squash and potatoes in jackets until soft.

  11. Serve bread alongside the meal.

  12. Bake apple tarts and peach cobbler until golden.

  13. Serve melons as a refreshing 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.

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

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

  2. Tomato + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Coffee + teatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

  4. Tomato + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Corn + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together89 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, corn, sauce, coffee, tea, chocolate, chicken):

  1. Cherryfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Applethe original

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

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