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Why it works: Potato and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve fresh fruit.

  2. Prepare granola with cream and sugar.

  3. Cook calves' liver and bacon until done.

  4. Fry potato croquettes until golden.

  5. Bake entire wheat muffins.

  6. Brew coffee.

  7. Make deviled eggs.

  8. Prepare French toast.

  9. Shred oranges for serving.

  10. Serve angel food cake.

  11. Brew tea.

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. Potato + wheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Cream + french toasttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Sugar + french toasttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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, sugar, liver, wheat, coffee, egg, french toast):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, liver, wheat, coffee, egg, french toast. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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