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Milk Diet

A diet plan featuring milk, bread, butter, and various puddings served at breakfast, dinner, and supper.

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

Milk Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Breakfast

  1. Serve 1 pint of tea or coffee with 5 oz. of bread and 5 oz. of butter for breakfast.

  2. Alternatively, prepare boiled bread and milk with porridge and milk.

Dinner

  1. Have 1 pint of milk with 12 oz. of semolina pudding for dinner on Sunday and Wednesday.

  2. Serve 1 pint of milk with 12 oz. of rice pudding on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.

  3. Enjoy ½ pint of milk with 12 oz. of bread pudding on Tuesday and Friday.

  4. If preferred, substitute ½ pint of beef tea for the ½ pint of milk at the discretion of medical officers.

Supper

  1. Repeat the breakfast menu for supper but omit coffee.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  5. Rice + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 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

Milk
Provides moisture and sweetness-related richness across the meals, softening the bread and pudding.
Bread
Supplies bulk and starch that make the meal filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread.
Semolina
Thickens the pudding into a soft, starchy texture.
Rice
Gives the rice pudding its starchy body and soft, creamy texture.

“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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