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Generous Diet

A simple meal plan with breakfast, dinner, and supper options using tea, bread, butter, beef, mutton, and potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Generous Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Breakfast

  1. Serve 1 pint of tea or coffee with 6 oz. of bread and 1 oz. of butter.

  2. Serve boiled bread and milk or porridge with milk.

Dinner and supper

  1. Roast 6 oz. of beef and serve with 4 oz. of bread and 8 oz. of potatoes.

  2. Boil 6 oz. of mutton and serve with 4 oz. of bread and 8 oz. of potatoes.

  3. Repeat breakfast but omit coffee for supper.

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

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

  2. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Beef + muttontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Beef
Provides the main protein of the midday meal, browned by roasting for flavor.
Mutton
Provides the main protein of the second main meal, cooked gently by boiling.
Potatoes
Supply starch and bulk, making the meal filling alongside the meat.

Swap the potato

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

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

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