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Ordinary Diet

A daily meal plan for adults, including buttered bread, tea, meat, potatoes, and rice milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tea and rice work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 197 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Ordinary Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Breakfast

  1. Serve 8 oz. of buttered bread for breakfast.

  2. Brew and serve 1 pint of tea with breakfast.

Dinner

  1. For dinner, choose 4 oz. of meat (boiled beef on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday; roast beef on Monday; roast mutton on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday).

  2. Serve 8 oz. of potatoes with dinner.

Tea and supper

  1. Serve 8 oz. of buttered bread for tea.

  2. Brew and serve 1 pint of tea with tea.

  3. For supper, serve 1 pint of rice 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. Tea + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

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

  2. Potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

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

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Tea + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

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

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, tea, meat, rice, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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