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Breakfast— No. 2

A breakfast featuring broiled spring chickens, rolls, potatoes, scrambled eggs, fried oysters, rye and Indian bread, coffee, tea, and chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and tea work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 259 recipes. Both carry 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan, which smells thiamin, meat. The science ↓

Breakfast— No. 2

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dishes

  1. Broil the spring chickens until cooked through.

  2. Prepare Parker House rolls according to your recipe.

  3. Slice and fry the Saratoga potatoes until golden brown.

  4. Scramble the eggs in a pan until fluffy.

  5. Fry the oysters in a skillet until crispy.

Serve

  1. Serve with slices of rye and Indian bread.

  2. Brew coffee, tea, and chocolate as desired.

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 + teatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  3. Potato + teatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

  4. Potato + ryetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Spring chickens
Provide the main protein, which becomes firm and fully cooked under the broiler.
Eggs
Set into a soft, fluffy texture when scrambled and add richness.
Oysters
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried, contrasting with softer dishes.
Potatoes
Brown in hot fat, developing a crisp surface and a tender interior.

The step that matters

Fry the oysters in a skillet until crispy. Oysters hold a lot of moisture and can steam instead of crisping if the pan is crowded or not hot enough, so fry in batches over steady heat.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, egg, oyster, rye, bread, coffee, tea):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg, oyster, rye, bread, coffee, tea. 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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