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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,611 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare 12 oz. of bread.

  2. For men, serve 2 pints of beer; for women, serve 1½ pints.

  3. Brew 1 pint of tea.

  4. Pour 1 pint of milk.

  5. Use 12 oz. of roasted meat, boiled for three days.

  6. Cook 1 lb. of potatoes.

  7. Serve 1 pint of gruel.

  8. Add 1 pint of milk.

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

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

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

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Tea + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Beer + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

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

Swap the potato

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

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

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

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