Name: Breakfast— No. 2.
Ingredients: 2 Spring Chickens; Home Rolls; Irish Potatoes; 4 Eggs; ½ cup Fried Oysters; 1 loaf Rye and Indian Bread; Coffee; Tea; Chocolate

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

Broil the spring chickens until cooked through.
Prepare home rolls according to your favorite recipe.
Boil the Irish potatoes until tender.
Scramble the eggs in a pan until fluffy.
Fry the oysters in a skillet until golden brown.

Serve

Serve with rye and Indian loaf, coffee, tea, and chocolate.

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.

Coffee + teatop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).
Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,756 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Potato + teatop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together136 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Potato + ryetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together75 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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

Eggs: Scrambled until fluffy, they provide structure and a soft, tender texture.
Spring chickens: Broiled until cooked through, they supply the main protein of the meal.
Irish potatoes: Boiled until tender, they add starch and a soft, filling texture.

Swap the potato

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

Potatothe original
Capsicumfits about as well
Asparagusfits about as well
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.