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A Sick Tea

A tea served with cracker panada, buttered Graham bread, and optional fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

A Sick Tea

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare a bowl of cracker panada.

  2. Brew a cup of weak black tea.

Serve

  1. Serve 1-2 slices of Graham bread with a little butter.

  2. Add fruit if permitted.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Black tea + buttertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Black tea + breadtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cracker panada
Provides the base of the meal, softened into a thick, mild, moist porridge-like dish.
Black tea
Adds a mild bitter, astringent flavour that contrasts with the bread and butter.
Graham bread
Supplies the bread component, with a slightly sweet, nutty flavour and a firm, absorbent crumb.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and flavour to the bread.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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