Why it works: Chicken and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,417 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓
Warm Dishes for Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Broil the beefsteak, chops, chicken, and fish until cooked to your liking.
Broil quail on toast until golden.
Fry pork tenderloins, pig's feet, oysters, clams, liver, and bacon until crispy.
Fry chops and pork until browned.
Prepare veal cutlets by breading and frying until golden.
Cook sausages until browned.
Fry tripe and kidneys until cooked through.
Make turkey or chicken hash by mixing cooked meat with seasonings.
Prepare corned beef hash similarly.
Form beef croquettes and fry until golden.
Make codfish balls or creamed codfish as desired.
Serve stewed meats on toast.
Poach eggs and serve on toast.
Make omelettes or boil eggs as preferred.
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.
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Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,417 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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Liver + vealtop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together392 recipes
Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).
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Quail + porktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together308 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together496 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Pork + livertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,606 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
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