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Vienna Coffee

Vienna Coffee is a beverage made by combining mocha and java coffee with egg, boiling water, milk, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,202 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Vienna Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Brew the coffee

  1. Mix Mocha and Java coffee with one egg.

  2. Pour half as much boiling water over the coffee as needed.

  3. Let the coffee froth. Stir it down.

  4. Let it boil for five minutes.

  5. Set it back on the stove for five to ten minutes.

  6. Add the rest of the water.

Prepare the cream and serve

  1. Add whipped cream to the boiled milk.

  2. Fill with coffee.

  3. Foam the egg white.

  4. Add it to one pint of cream, using the same quantity for each cup.

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 + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

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

  3. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Mocha and java coffee
Provides the main coffee flavor and aroma of the drink.
Egg
Helps bind the coffee and its white is whipped into a light foam.
Boiled milk
Adds creaminess and softens the bitterness of the coffee.
Whipped cream
Adds richness and a soft, cool topping.

The step that matters

Let it boil for five minutes. Boiling too long or too hard can scorch the coffee and draw out bitter flavors, so keep the heat controlled while it brews.

“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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