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Children's Breakfast

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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

  1. Boil the hominy, fried mush, and boiled mush separately.

  2. Roast the beef until not too done and prepare dish gravy.

  3. Boil the potatoes until tender.

  4. Cook the macaroni or rice until soft.

  5. Prepare the tapioca pudding according to package instructions.

  6. In a large pot, boil the fowl in 3 quarts of water with rice, salt, and optional vegetables for flavor.

  7. Serve the chicken separately with drawn butter and boiled potatoes.

  8. Roast or boil the leg of mutton until cooked through.

  9. Mash the potatoes and serve with green peas.

  10. Prepare the wine curd and serve with fried or boiled fish.

  11. Make the sago pudding according to package instructions.

  12. Serve stewed tomatoes as a side.

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. Turnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Beef + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + turniptop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked 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):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. 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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