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Full Diet for Men and Women

A daily diet plan including bread, potatoes, porter, mutton, beef, and broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,052 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Full Diet for Men and Women

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 12 oz. of bread daily.

  2. Prepare 8 oz. of potatoes daily.

  3. Drink 1 pint of porter daily.

  4. On Sunday and Thursday, serve 6 oz. of boiled mutton.

  5. On Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, serve 6 oz. of roast mutton.

  6. On Tuesday and Friday, serve 6 oz. of roast beef.

  7. For supper, serve 1 pint of broth.

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 + beeftop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Mutton + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  4. Bread + beeftop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides starch and bulk as the daily staple of the diet.
Potatoes
Provides starch and bulk as a daily vegetable accompaniment.
Porter
Supplies a daily drink as listed in the diet.
Boiled mutton
Supplies protein on Sundays and Thursdays, prepared by boiling.
Roast mutton
Supplies protein on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, prepared by roasting.
Roast beef
Supplies protein on Tuesdays and Fridays, prepared by roasting.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Onionfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Leekfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, mutton, beef. 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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