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Breakfast No. J

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Breakfast No. J

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare cracked wheat according to package instructions.

  2. Make peanut gravy by combining peanut butter with water and heating until smooth.

  3. Bake graham rolls and whole-wheat gems as per your favorite recipes.

  4. Cook raised bread until golden brown.

  5. Prepare potato hash by frying diced potatoes until crispy.

  6. Cook macaroni and mix with egg sauce before serving.

  7. Serve nut butter and malted caramels as sides.

  8. Heat hot nut milk and brew Brazil-nut 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. Wheat + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Peanut + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together161 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, bread, potato, egg, sauce, butter, milk):

  1. Peanutthe original
  2. Beansfits about as well
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Almondfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, bread, potato, egg, sauce, butter, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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