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Excellent Breakfast Coffee

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Excellent Breakfast Coffee

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 ↓

Excellent Breakfast Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast the coffee beans until they are dark brown.

  2. Grind the roasted beans to a fine powder.

  3. Boil water in a pot.

  4. Add the ground coffee to the boiling water.

  5. Let it steep for a few minutes before straining.

  6. Serve hot.

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 + beanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together289 recipes

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

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

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