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Breakfast— No. 1

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Buckwheat and flour work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Breakfast— No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare fine hominy according to package instructions.

  2. Toast bread and spread with butter.

  3. Cook beefsteak to desired doneness.

  4. Bake French rolls until golden brown.

  5. Boil or steam potatoes until tender, then mix with cream.

  6. Prepare buckwheat cakes on a griddle.

  7. Brew tea, coffee, and chocolate as desired.

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. Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Coffee + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

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

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

  4. Potato + buckwheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

Swap the buckwheat

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, potato, cream, flour, tea, coffee, chocolate):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Buckwheatthe original
  4. Peppermintfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, potato, cream, flour, tea, coffee, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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