Why it works: Potato and barley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
Middle Diet
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare a meal using 12 oz. of bread, 8 oz. of potatoes, and either 4 oz. of meat or 8 oz. of white fish.
Serve with 1 pint of milk.
Make soup with 1½ oz. of barley or use 1 pint of beef tea.
Optionally, include ½ pint of beer.
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.
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Potato + barleytop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together165 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
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Barley + beeftop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together458 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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Potato + beeftop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,052 recipes
Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
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Potato + milktop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,611 recipes
Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
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Barley + teatop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together49 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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