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A diet plan including bread, porter, dressed meat, potatoes, rice pudding, mutton broth, butter, vegetable soup, porridge, gruel, and barley-water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 851 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Full or Extra Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 1¾ cups of bread and 2 cups of porter to males; serve 2 cups of porter to females.

  2. Alternate ¾ cup of dressed meat, roasted and boiled, with 1 cup of potatoes.

  3. Serve rice pudding three times a week, about 4 cups total.

  4. On days with boiled meat, add 2 cups of mutton broth.

  5. Occasionally serve 2 cups of strong vegetable soup with meat and rice pudding twice a week.

  6. Include 2 tablespoons of butter each day.

  7. Provide porridge, gruel, and barley-water as needed.

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

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

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Meat + muttontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together936 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 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

What each ingredient does

Broad
Provides the main starch and bulk of the daily meal.
Dressed meat
Supplies protein and richness as the main savoury component.
Potatoes
Adds starchy bulk that makes the meal more filling.
Rice pudding
Adds sweetness and soft, moist texture to the meal.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and flavour to the daily diet.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, rice, mutton, butter):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Onionfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, rice, mutton, butter. 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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