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A diet plan prescribing bread, porter, dressed meat, potatoes, rice pudding, mutton broth, butter, porridge, gruel, and barley-water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and barley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 568 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Full or Extra Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 14 oz. of bread.

  2. Pour 1 pint of porter for males or ½ pint for females.

  3. Prepare 6 oz. of dressed meat, alternating between roasting and boiling.

  4. Cook 8 oz. of potatoes to serve with the meat.

  5. Serve ½ lb. of rice pudding three times a week.

  6. On days with boiled meat, serve ½ pint of mutton broth.

  7. Occasionally, serve 1 pint of strong vegetable soup with meat and rice pudding twice a week.

  8. Use 1 oz. of butter each day.

  9. Prepare porridge, gruel, and barley-water as needed.

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. Rice + barleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

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

  2. Potato + barleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  5. Bread + muttontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides the main starch and bulk of the daily ration.
Dressed meat
Supplies protein and fat, giving the meal its substance.
Potatoes
Adds starchy bulk to accompany the meat.
Rice pudding
Adds sweetness and a soft, filling texture to the ration.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and flavour to the daily ration.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, meat, rice, mutton, butter, barley):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, meat, rice, mutton, butter, barley. 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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