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Breakfast Bacon, with Fried Mush

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and bread work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 547 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breakfast Bacon, with Fried Mush

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry the bacon slices until cooked, then keep warm.

  2. Slice the cold corn meal mush.

  3. Dip the slices in grated bread crumbs or sifted corn meal.

  4. Fry the coated mush in the bacon gravy until brown.

  5. Serve each piece of fried mush topped with a slice of bacon.

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. Corn + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together547 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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