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Milk Diet

A daily diet consisting of milk with bread, butter, fish, meat, potatoes, vegetables, pudding, treacle, biscuits, and crackers.

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

Milk Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For breakfast, serve 1 cup of milk with 2 oz of bread and 2 oz of butter.

  2. For dinner, have 1 cup of milk, 2 oz of boiled fish, 3 oz of roast mutton or minced beef, 4 oz of mashed potatoes, and 1 oz of green vegetables.

  3. For tea, enjoy 1 cup of milk with 2 oz of bread and 2 oz of treacle or butter.

  4. For supper, have 2 oz of biscuit or cracker with a slice of bread and butter.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

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

  4. Potato + biscuittop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Bread + fishtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Provides liquid, protein and sweetness that make up the bulk of each meal in this diet.
Bread
Supplies starch and body, giving the meals bulk and something to eat with the milk.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour and making the bread more satisfying.
Mashed potatoes
Adds starch and soft texture, filling out the dinner plate.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, bread, butter, fish, mutton, biscuit):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Leekfits less well
  4. Shallotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, bread, butter, fish, mutton, biscuit. 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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