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Common Diet

A daily meal plan including porridge, milk, tea, soup, beef or mutton, potatoes, rice, and tea.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and rice work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 197 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Common Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare 1 pint of porridge.

Serve by meal

  1. Serve porridge with ½ cup of milk or 1 pint of tea for breakfast.

  2. Serve 1 pint of soup for luncheon.

  3. Roast or boil 6 oz. of beef or mutton.

  4. Serve roasted or boiled beef or mutton with potatoes for dinner.

  5. Serve 1 pint of tea for tea.

  6. Serve ½ cup of milk for supper on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

  7. Serve ½ cup of boiled rice and milk on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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. Tea + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  3. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Porridge
Forms the base of the breakfast dish and provides bulk and filling texture.
Beef or mutton
Supplies the main protein of the dinner, becoming tender and savoury when roasted or boiled.
Potatoes
Adds starch and bulk to the dinner, softening and absorbing the meat's flavour when cooked.
Boiled rice
Provides starchy bulk to the supper, softening in liquid to a soft, filling texture.

“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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