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Banana Foam Toast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Banana and sauce work together. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 155 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Banana Foam Toast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Moisten nicely browned slices of toast.

  2. Cover the toast with Banana Foam sauce.

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. Banana + saucetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together155 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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