Name: Full Diet
Ingredients: 8 oz. bread; 6 oz. meat (roast or boiled leg or neck of mutton, or roast beef); ½ pint broth or pea soup; 4 oz. boiled rice or rice pudding made with milk; 1 pint milk; 1 pint beer

Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Full Diet

Ingredients

8 oz. bread
6 oz. meat (roast or boiled leg or neck of mutton, or roast beef)
½ pint broth or pea soup
4 oz. boiled rice or rice pudding made with milk
1 pint milk
1 pint beer

Directions

Serve 8 oz. of bread as a side.
Prepare 6 oz. of meat by roasting or boiling.
Make broth or pea soup.
Serve ½ pint of broth or pea soup four times a week on alternate days.
Cook 4 oz. of rice.
Prepare rice pudding with milk.
Serve 1 pint of milk and 1 pint of beer as beverages.

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.

Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Bread + ricetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Milk + beertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together298 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).