Name: Receipt for Making Coffee
Ingredients: 6 heaping teaspoons of coffee; 1 teaspoon of chicory (optional); 1 pint of water

Why it works: Coffee and chicory work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Receipt for Making Coffee

Ingredients

6 heaping teaspoons of coffee
1 teaspoon of chicory (optional)
1 pint of water

Directions

Use a percolator coffee pot for best results.
Store coffee in glass bottles and grind fresh each morning.
Add 6 heaping teaspoons of coffee and 1 teaspoon of chicory to the pot for 1 pint of water.
For stronger coffee, omit chicory and add 1 more spoonful of coffee.

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.

Coffee + chicorytop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together50 recipes

Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Coffee: Provides the main flavor and aroma of the drink; more grounds make it stronger.
Chicory: Adds a roasted, slightly bitter note and body to the brew.

“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.