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Hominy Hominy Milk

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 91 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Hominy Hominy Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the hominy according to package instructions.

  2. In a separate pot, heat the milk and stir in sugar to taste.

  3. Serve the hominy with the sweetened milk.

  4. Toast the bread and serve alongside.

  5. Boil or bake the potatoes until tender.

  6. Brew the coffee and serve with cocoa if desired.

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 + cocoatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

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

  3. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Milk + cocoatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Potato + cocoatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar, coffee, cocoa):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Arrowrootfits less well
  4. Asparagusfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, coffee, cocoa. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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