Name: Breakfast — Waffles, Broiled Mutton or Lamb Chops, Potatoes, Stewed Tomatoes.
Ingredients: Waffles; Mutton or lamb chops; Potatoes; Tomatoes

Why it works: Potato and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Breakfast — Waffles, Broiled Mutton or Lamb Chops, Potatoes, Stewed Tomatoes.

Ingredients

Waffles
Mutton or lamb chops
Potatoes
Tomatoes

Directions

Prepare waffles according to your favorite recipe.
Broil the mutton or lamb chops until cooked to your liking.
Boil or steam the potatoes until tender.
Stew the tomatoes until soft and heated through.

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.

Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,798 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together293 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Mutton + tomatotop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together452 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).