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Broth Diet

A simple broth served with mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and potato work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Broth Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare 1 pint of tea.

  2. Heat 1½ pints of broth in a pot.

Make the mash and serve

  1. Mash 6 ounces of potatoes and mix with ½ ounce of butter until smooth.

  2. Serve the broth alongside the mashed potatoes. Enjoy your meal.

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 + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Tea + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Broth
Provides the main liquid and savory flavor of the dish.
Potatoes
Form the body and bulk of the mash, giving it a soft, thick structure.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the mashed potatoes turn smooth.

The step that matters

Mashing the potatoes until smooth. Overworking mashed potatoes ruptures starch granules and releases excess starch, which makes the texture gummy and sticky. Mash gently and stop once the potatoes are smooth.

“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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