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Fish Diet

A diet plan that includes bread and milk for breakfast, fish and potatoes for dinner, and gruel for supper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Fish Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For breakfast, serve 10 oz. of bread with 1 pint of milk.

  2. For dinner, cook 8 oz. of your choice of fish and serve with 1 lb. of potatoes.

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

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

  2. Bread + fishtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Milk + fishtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,432 recipes

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

  5. Fish + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

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

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 for the breakfast meal.
Milk
Adds liquid and softness to the breakfast, moistening the bread.
Fish
Forms the main protein of dinner, firming up as it cooks.
Potatoes
Provides starch that makes the dinner filling.

Swap the potato

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

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

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