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A Sick Breakfast

A simple breakfast of tea, toasted bread with butter, and fruit or jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and guava work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

A Sick Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare a cup of warm tea.

  2. Toast two slices of bread until lightly browned.

  3. Spread a tiny pat of sweet butter on the toast.

Serve

  1. Serve with a small saucer of fruit or jelly of your choice.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + guavatop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  2. Tea + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together703 recipes

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

  3. Tea + guavatop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread (in the method)
Toasting browns the surface and adds crisp texture and aroma to the slices.
Sweet butter
Adds fat and a rich flavor that softens the toast and carries its aroma.
Fruit or jelly
Adds sweetness and acidity that balance the plain, buttered toast.

Swap the guava

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tea, butter):

  1. Peachfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Guavathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tea, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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