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Breakfast As It Should Be

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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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 As It Should Be

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak oatmeal overnight.

  2. Steam soaked oatmeal in the morning until smooth.

  3. Serve oatmeal drenched with cream.

  4. Toast bacon until crispy.

  5. Slice potatoes thinly and fry until dry and hot.

  6. Serve sweet and light bread with butter.

  7. Brew fresh coffee and tea.

  8. Prepare boiled eggs, omelette, beefsteak, mutton-chops, or chicken 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. Coffee + teatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Potato + teatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Bread + muttontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, bread, butter, coffee, tea, egg, mutton):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Spinachfits less well
  4. Capsicumfits less well

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

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