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Acorn Coffee

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Acorn and butter work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Acorn Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the husks from the acorns and divide the kernels.

  2. Dry the kernels gradually.

  3. Roast the acorns in a closed vessel, stirring continually.

  4. Add small pieces of butter while roasting.

  5. Avoid burning or over-roasting.

  6. Once roasted, grind the acorns to use as coffee.

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. Acorn + buttertop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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