Name: Get the Breakfast Heady
Ingredients: rashers of bacon; eggs; tea; sugar; bread for toast

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Get the Breakfast Heady

Ingredients

Directions

Boil water in a kettle.
Move the kettle to the side while keeping it boiling.
Cook the rashers of bacon in a pan or on a gridiron.
Warm a dish and four plates in the oven.
Make two or three rounds of thin toast while the meat cooks.
Place the cooked meat on the hot dish and cover to keep warm.
Rinse the teapot with boiling water.
Boil the eggs and place them in egg cups.
Put the eggs on a dish and add it to the tray with the teapot and hot meat.
Serve everything in the breakfast room.

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.

Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Tea + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together383 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Tea + sugartop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,204 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Egg + teatop 31% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together821 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).