Why it works: Turnip and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Children's Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the hominy, fried mush, and boiled mush separately.
Roast the beef until not too done and prepare dish gravy.
Boil the potatoes until tender.
Cook the macaroni or rice until soft.
Prepare the tapioca pudding according to package instructions.
In a large pot, boil the fowl in 3 quarts of water with rice, salt, and optional vegetables for flavor.
Serve the chicken separately with drawn butter and boiled potatoes.
Roast or boil the leg of mutton until cooked through.
Mash the potatoes and serve with green peas.
Prepare the wine curd and serve with fried or boiled fish.
Make the sago pudding according to package instructions.
Serve stewed tomatoes as a side.
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.
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Turnip + carrottop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together8,002 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,023 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together3,107 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
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Beef + lambtop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together896 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
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Onion + turniptop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together7,585 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the onion
The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, potato, rice, turnip, carrot, lamb, peas):
- Leekfits better
- Asparagusfits better
- Parsnipfits better
- Onionthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against beef, potato, rice, turnip, carrot, lamb, peas. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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