Name: Full Diet for Men and Women
Ingredients: 12 oz. bread; 8 oz. potatoes; 1 pint porter; 6 oz. boiled mutton (Sunday and Thursday); 6 oz. roast mutton (Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday); 6 oz. roast beef (Tuesday and Friday); 1 pint broth

Why it works: Potato and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,052 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Full Diet for Men and Women

Ingredients

Directions

Daily diet

Consume 12 oz. of bread daily.
Eat 8 oz. of potatoes daily.
Drink 1 pint of porter daily.
For supper, consume 1 pint of broth.

Weekly meat plan

On Sunday and Thursday, have 6 oz. of boiled mutton.
On Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, have 6 oz. of roast mutton.
On Tuesday and Friday, have 6 oz. of roast beef.

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.

Potato + beeftop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,052 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Mutton + beeftop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,373 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Bread + muttontop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,488 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + beeftop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,032 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together434 recipes

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