Name: Coffee for Three
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons best O.G. Java coffee; enough Moca coffee to flavor; 1½ eggs; 3 cups cold water; 1 pint boiling water

Why it works: Coffee and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,239 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Coffee for Three

serves 3

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

For each person, take 1 tablespoon of best O.G. Java coffee and enough Moca to flavor it.
Break half an egg into the coffee mixture and pour in a little cold water; stir well.
Add 1 pint of boiling water and boil for 5 minutes.
Set back on the stove for 2 minutes before serving.

Scale up and clean

For 6 persons, double the quantity and clean the coffee pot thoroughly after use.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Coffee + eggtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,239 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

Eggs: Egg helps clarify the coffee, binding fine grounds so they settle and the brew runs clearer.
O.g. java coffee: Provides the main coffee flavor and body of the brew.

“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.