Name: Cereal Coffee Blend
Ingredients: 1 pound roasted Indian corn; 3 pounds roasted wheat

Why it works: Corn and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 465 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Cereal Coffee Blend

Ingredients

1 pound roasted Indian corn
3 pounds roasted wheat

Directions

Grind the roasted Indian corn and roasted wheat finely.
Drip the mixture twice through a butter cloth.

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.

Corn + wheattop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together465 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Roasted indian corn: Provides the main roasted body and flavour of the brew.
Roasted wheat: Provides the main roasted body and flavour of 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.