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A diet plan featuring oatmeal porridge, boiled meat, potatoes, bread, broth, barley, vegetables, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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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 ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the porridge

  1. Prepare porridge by cooking 2 pints of oatmeal in water until thick.

  2. Stir in 6 oz of buttermilk before serving.

Make the boiled meat dish

  1. For the boiled meat dish, cook 8 oz of boiled meat with 20 oz of potatoes until tender.

Serve

  1. Serve with 3 oz of bread and 1 pint of broth made from 1 oz of barley, 1 oz of vegetables, and 2 oz of meat.

  2. For supper, serve 20 oz of potatoes and 15 oz of milk.

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

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

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + barleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

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

  5. Meat + barleytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Forms the thick body of the porridge as it cooks in water.
Buttermilk
Adds tang and a creamy texture when stirred into the cooked porridge.
Boiled meat
Provides the main protein of the boiled meat dish.
Potatoes
Supply starch and bulk, becoming tender as they cook with the meat.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness to the supper serving.
Bread
Adds starch and bulk alongside the broth.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (buttermilk, meat, bread, barley, milk):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Chivefits less well
  4. Tomatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against buttermilk, meat, bread, barley, milk. 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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