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Malt or Cereal Coffee

A beverage made by steeping malt coffee in boiling water, optionally adding coffee beans and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and beans work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 289 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Malt or Cereal Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the malt coffee.

  2. Let it stand for 5 to 15 minutes, then strain.

  3. Serve hot or cold, with or without cream.

  4. To reduce coffee cravings, add coffee beans a few minutes before straining.

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. Coffee + beanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together289 recipes

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

  2. Malt + beanstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Malt + coffeetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Beans + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Malt coffee
Provides the main coffee-like flavour and colour of the drink.
Boiling water
Dissolves and extracts flavour from the malt coffee as it steeps.

Swap the beans

The recipe marks beans as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (malt, coffee, cream):

  1. Cocoafits better
  2. Hazelnutfits about as well
  3. Beansthe original
  4. Peanutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against malt, coffee, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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