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Warm Dishes for Breakfast

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Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Warm Dishes for Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Broil the beef steak, chops, chicken, or fish until cooked to your liking.

  2. Prepare quail on toast by broiling the quail and serving it on toasted bread.

  3. Fry the pork tenderloins and pig's feet until golden brown.

  4. Fry the oysters and clams until crispy.

  5. Cook the liver and bacon together in a skillet until the liver is done.

  6. Fry the chops and pork until cooked through.

  7. Fry ham and eggs together in a pan.

  8. Bread and fry the veal cutlets until golden.

  9. Cook sausages in a skillet until browned.

  10. Fry tripe and kidneys until cooked through.

  11. Make turkey or chicken hash by combining cooked meat with potatoes and frying until heated.

  12. Prepare corned beef hash by frying corned beef with potatoes.

  13. Make beef croquettes by mixing cooked beef with breadcrumbs and frying until golden.

  14. Prepare codfish balls or creamed codfish by mixing cooked cod with ingredients and frying or baking.

  15. Stew meats and serve on toast.

  16. Poach eggs and serve on toast.

  17. Make omelettes or boil eggs in your preferred style.

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. Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  2. Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Quail + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together308 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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