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Mutton Diet

A simple diet plan including milk, mutton, potatoes, bread, and broth or gruel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Mutton Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 1 pint of milk for breakfast.

  2. For dinner, serve 4 oz. of cooked mutton with 8 oz. of potatoes and 12 oz. of bread.

  3. For supper, serve 1 pint of broth or 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. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

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

  2. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

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

  5. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Provides liquid and nutrition for the breakfast portion.
Cooked mutton
Supplies the main protein for the dinner portion.
Potatoes
Adds starch and bulk to the dinner portion.
Bread
Adds starch and bulk to the dinner portion.
Broth or gruel
Provides liquid and warmth for the supper portion.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, mutton, bread. 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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