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Milk Diet

A daily plan of milk, bread, beer, tea, roasted meat, potatoes, gruel, fish, barley water, broth, pudding, rice milk, and bread or rice pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and barley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Milk Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Breakfast

  1. For breakfast, serve 12 oz. of bread, 1 pint of tea, and 1 pint of milk.

Dinner and supper

  1. For dinner, have 12 oz. of roasted meat, 1 lb. of potatoes, 1 pint of gruel, and 1 pint of milk.

  2. For supper, enjoy 4 oz. of plain boiled white fish, 12 oz. of bread, 1 pint of tea, and 1 pint of milk.

Drinks and extras

  1. Drink 2 pints of beer if you are a man, or 1 pint if you are a woman.

  2. Include barley water as desired throughout the day.

  3. Consume 1 pint of broth and 6 oz. of light pudding as part of your meals.

  4. For additional nutrition, have 1 pint of rice milk and 1 lb. of bread or rice pudding over three days.

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 + barleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

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

  2. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

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

  3. Bread + fishtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Tea + barleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together49 recipes

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

  5. Tea + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides starch and bulk for filling meals.
Milk
Adds moisture, protein and softness to the day's meals.
Potatoes
Provide starch and bulk to the dinner plate.

“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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