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Why it works: Wheat and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve fruit with wheat germ, cream, and sugar.

  2. Prepare breaded calves' brains.

  3. Make creamed potatoes.

  4. Bake muffins according to package instructions.

  5. Brew coffee.

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. Wheat + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together235 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Wheat + coffeetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Cream + potatotop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, cream, sugar, coffee):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Sweet potatofits about as well
  3. Spinachfits less well
  4. Capsicumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, cream, sugar, coffee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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