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Mutton Diet

A diet consisting of bread, roast mutton, potatoes, and soup served on specific days.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and mutton are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,488 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mutton Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 1 lb of bread with ½ lb of roast mutton.

  2. Boil mutton on Tuesdays.

  3. Add ½ lb of potatoes.

  4. Serve 1 pint of soup on boiled-meat days.

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

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

  2. Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

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

  3. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides the starchy bulk that fills out the meal.
Roast mutton
Supplies the meat, the main protein and richness of the meal.
Potatoes
Add starchy bulk and body to the plate.
Soup
Adds liquid and moisture to the meal.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, mutton. 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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