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Mutton Diet

A diet plan featuring bread, tea, mutton, milk, porter, wine, and fresh vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Mutton Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 6 oz of bread with ½ pint of tea for breakfast.

  2. Boil ½ lb of mutton (excluding the bone).

  3. Serve 6 oz of bread with the boiled mutton for dinner.

  4. Serve 4 oz of bread with ½ pint of tea for supper.

  5. Provide extras: 1 egg, ½ pint of new milk, ¼ pint of porter, or 4 oz of wine, along with fresh vegetables as ordered.

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 + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Tea + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

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

  4. Tea + winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Bread + teatop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (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 bulk of the starch in each meal, giving energy and filling the diet.
Boiled mutton
Supplies the main protein and fat, and boiling firms its texture while keeping it moist.

“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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