Name: Bacon Sweet Potato Cornbread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Yield: 1 9-inch skillet
Ingredients: 5 slices bacon; 1 1/4 cups cornmeal; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1 cup mashed cooked sweet potato; 1 cup buttermilk; 2 eggs, lightly beaten

Bacon Sweet Potato Cornbread

"A classic, old-fashioned, dense skillet corn bread gets jazzed up with bacon and sweet potato. I started with another recipe, added sweet potato and bacon, and substituted bacon grease for the shortening. Serve warm in wedges with butter."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients

Why it works: Sweet potato and buttermilk work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Bacon Sweet Potato Cornbread

1 9-inch skillet

Prep15 min

Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

886Calories

35 gProtein

18 gFat

145 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Sweet potato + buttermilktop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together35 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Sweet potato + eggtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together843 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Buttermilk + eggtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,986 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (buttermilk, egg):

Chivefits better
Cucumberfits better
Asparagusfits better
Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against buttermilk, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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