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Summer Breakfast.— No. I.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Summer Breakfast.— No. I.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fruit as desired.

  2. Remove the gills from the trout and broil until cooked through.

  3. Serve with tartare sauce.

  4. Slice potatoes thinly and fry until golden.

  5. Bake hot rolls according to your recipe.

  6. Cook spring chickens until fully done.

  7. Broil tomatoes until tender.

  8. Brew coffee and English breakfast tea.

  9. Bread the chops and fry until golden, then serve with peas.

  10. Make hot pounded biscuits as per your recipe.

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. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Coffee + teatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

  3. Potato + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  4. Chicken + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, potato, chicken, tomato, coffee, tea, biscuit):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peanutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, potato, chicken, tomato, coffee, tea, biscuit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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