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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 ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare various types of bread: home-made, Captain's biscuits, French, wholemeal, unleavened, brown, and oatmeal.

  2. Toast the oatmeal if it is stale.

  3. Brew tea and coffee as per your preference.

  4. Make chocolate using water for a lighter version.

  5. Cook porridge for at least 40 minutes without adding sugar or syrup.

  6. Boil or grill hominy.

  7. Boil eggs for no more than three minutes, or prepare them poached or as an omelette.

  8. Grill ham or bacon and drain off excess fat.

  9. Preferably boil or grill fresh fish; avoid frying.

  10. Serve kippers, bloaters, or Finnan haddocks as desired.

  11. Include grilled steak or chop, cold meat or fowl, baked apples, marmalade, and fresh fruit.

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.

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.

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Coffee + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  3. Tea + coffeetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

  4. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Tea + cocoatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, biscuit, tea, coffee, chocolate, egg, ham):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Cocoathe original
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Walnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, biscuit, tea, coffee, chocolate, egg, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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