Name: Coffee
Ingredients: 1 ounce coffee beans; 1 large breakfast cup filtered water

Why it works: Coffee and beans work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 289 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Coffee

Ingredients

1 ounce coffee beans
1 large breakfast cup filtered water

Directions

Prepare the coffee

Roast the coffee beans until they are a fine light brown.
Grind the roasted coffee to a powder.

Brew

Heat the coffee pot.
Place the ground coffee in the pot and add a little boiling water.
After two minutes, add more boiling water until the required quantity is reached.

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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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.

Coffee + beanstop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together289 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Coffee beans: Roasting develops the flavour and aroma that the brewed coffee will carry.
Filtered water: Hot water extracts the soluble flavour compounds from the ground coffee.

“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.