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Coffee. Coffee with Egg.

A roasted coffee berry dish mixed with beaten egg and optional butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Coffee. Coffee with Egg.

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Pick out imperfect kernels and bits of grit from the coffee berries.

  2. Wash and dry the coffee berries.

  3. Place 1 pound of coffee berries in a baking pan.

Roast

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Brown the coffee, stirring thoroughly from the outer edges to the center.

  3. Ensure the color is a decided brown, not yellow or very dark.

Add egg and butter

  1. When partly cool, stir in the beaten egg, ensuring it touches every kernel.

  2. For a richer flavor, stir in a small lump of butter while hot.

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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Coffee + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. 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

Coffee berries
Form the main body of the dish, roasted to develop the brown color and flavor.
Beaten egg
Coats the kernels so the egg sets and binds them together.
Butter
Adds richness and a smoother mouthfeel when stirred in while hot.

The step that matters

Browning the coffee evenly. Stirring from the outer edges to the center helps every kernel roast at the same rate. Uneven roasting leaves some kernels underdone and others scorched, which makes the flavor harsh or bitter.

“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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