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Mixed Diet

A breakfast meal with bread, butter, tea, milk, sugar, mutton, potatoes or vegetables, rice or bread pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Mixed Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 8 oz. of bread with 2 oz. of butter, alongside ½ pint of tea with milk and sugar.

  2. Repeat the same for tea.

  3. Serve 5 oz. of cooked mutton, alternating with 1 lb. of potatoes or fresh vegetables.

  4. Alternate with 8 oz. of rice or bread pudding.

  5. Include ½ pint of milk.

  6. If fish is served, omit the meat.

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

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

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

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

  5. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 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 base of the meal.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the bread.
Cooked mutton
Supplies the main protein of the meal.
Potatoes or fresh vegetables
Adds bulk and starch alongside the meat.
Rice or bread pudding
Adds a filling starch to alternate with the other dishes.

“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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