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Milk Diet

A daily diet consisting of bread, beer, tea, milk, roasted meat, potatoes, arrow-root, broth, rice milk, and gruel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and rice work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 197 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Milk Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Consume 12 oz. of bread daily.

  2. Drink 1 pint of beer.

  3. Have 1 pint of tea.

  4. Drink 1 pint of milk.

  5. Eat 12 oz. of roasted meat (weighed with bone).

  6. Prepare 1 lb. of potatoes.

  7. Use 4 oz. of plain arrow-root.

  8. Make 1 pint of broth.

  9. Prepare 1½ pints of rice milk.

  10. Have 1 pint of gruel.

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. Tea + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  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 as a daily staple of the diet.
Milk
Supplies moisture, protein and sweetness as a main daily drink.
Roasted meat
Adds protein and savoury flavour, with the bone weighed in.
Potatoes
Provides starch and bulk to make the meal filling.
Arrow-root
Thickens liquids into a smooth, starchy texture.
Rice milk
Supplies moisture and a mild sweetness as a light liquid.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, beer, tea, milk, meat, rice):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Asparagusfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, beer, tea, milk, meat, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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