Name: Breakfast
Ingredients: Fruit; Granula; Cream; Sugar; Calves' liver; Bacon; Potato croquettes; Entire wheat muffins; Coffee

Why it works: Potato and wheat 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

Serve fresh fruit.
Prepare granola with cream and sugar.
Cook calves' liver and bacon in a skillet until done.
Fry potato croquettes until golden brown.
Toast entire wheat muffins and serve warm.
Brew and serve 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.

Potato + wheattop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together235 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Potato + coffeetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together167 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Wheat + coffeetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together105 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Cream + potatotop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,481 recipes

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