Name: To Boast Coffee
Ingredients: raw coffee beans; charcoal

Why it works: Coffee and beans work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 289 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

To Boast Coffee

Ingredients

raw coffee beans
charcoal

Directions

Purchase the best raw coffee beans.
Roast the coffee at home using a small roasting apparatus.
Fill the roasting cylinder halfway and turn it slowly over a gentle fire.
When a strong aromatic smell is emitted, increase the movement.
Roast until the coffee is a fine, light, equal brown.
Spread the roasted coffee on a large dish and cover with a folded cloth until cool.
Store in canisters or bottles, ensuring to exclude air.

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.

Coffee + beanstop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together289 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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