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Coffee roasted with fresh bread crumbs to absorb oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and bread work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 267 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

To Prepare Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add the fresh bread crumbs to the coffee to absorb the oil as it oozes out.

  2. Roast the coffee until it reaches your desired level.

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. Coffee + breadtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together267 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Coffee
Is the main ingredient that is roasted and develops its flavor and color during roasting.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the oil that oozes out of the coffee as it roasts.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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