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Guests’ Breakfast for 12 Persons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and coffee 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 ↓

Guests’ Breakfast for 12 Persons

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare cod cutlets by cooking them until done.

  2. Make a ham omelette by whisking eggs and cooking with diced ham.

  3. Poach eggs in simmering water until the whites are set.

  4. Stew rhubarb until tender and sweeten to taste.

  5. Serve apricot preserve alongside the meal.

  6. Brew tea and coffee, and serve with milk and cream.

  7. Offer a selection of bread, milk rolls, toast, butter, and marmalade.

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. Tea + coffeetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Tea + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

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

  4. Apricot + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

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

  5. Rhubarb + apricottop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the rhubarb

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, egg, apricot, tea, coffee, milk, cream):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits about as well
  4. Rhubarbthe original

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

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