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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Buckwheat and flour work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the ham until heated through.

  2. Fry the raw potatoes until golden brown.

  3. Boil the eggs to your desired doneness.

  4. Prepare buckwheat cakes according to package instructions and serve with maple syrup.

  5. Serve pickles on the side.

  6. Brew coffee to taste.

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. Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Potato + buckwheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (ham, egg, buckwheat, flour, maple syrup, coffee):

  1. Mustardfits about as well
  2. Sweet potatofits about as well
  3. Arrowrootfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, egg, buckwheat, flour, maple syrup, coffee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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