Name: Full Diet
Ingredients: 3 pints of tea; ½ cup of sugar; 15 oz. of bread; 6 oz. of cooked meat; ½ lb. of potatoes; ½ cup of milk; 3 oz. of butter

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Full Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Brew 3 pints of tea and sweeten with ½ cup of sugar.
Serve 15 oz. of bread with butter.
Prepare 6 oz. of cooked meat and serve with ½ lb. of boiled or mashed potatoes.
Pour ½ cup of milk for drinking.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,611 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Tea + potatotop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together136 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Tea: Provides the main drink, with sugar sweetening it.
Bread: Serves as the starchy base of the meal, eaten with butter.
Cooked meat: Supplies the protein of the meal, served alongside potatoes.
Potatoes: Provides the starchy side dish, served boiled or mashed with the meat.

“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.