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Get the Breakfast Ready

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Get the Breakfast Ready

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil water in a kettle and move it to the side.

  2. Cook the rashers of meat in a pan or on a gridiron.

  3. Warm a dish and plates in the oven.

  4. While the meat cooks, toast two or three rounds of bread.

  5. Once the meat is cooked, place it on the hot dish and cover to keep warm.

  6. Prepare tea by rinsing the teapot with boiling water and adding tea and sugar.

  7. Boil the eggs until done, then place them in egg cups.

  8. Arrange the teapot, dish of hot meat, and hot plates on a tray and take them to the breakfast room.

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. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Bread + teatop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together383 recipes

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

  4. Meat + teatop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

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