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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare 1 lb of beef, dressing it as needed.

  2. Use 4 oz of butter or 6 oz of cheese three times a week.

  3. Boil 1½ lb of mutton twice a week.

  4. Serve 1 pint of broth four times a week.

  5. Provide 1 pint of milk four times a week.

  6. Include 12 oz of bread and 1 pint of porter for men, and gruel for women.

  7. Serve 8 oz of mutton with potatoes five times a week.

  8. Offer 8 oz of potatoes and soup with vegetables twice a week.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, butter, cheese, mutton, milk, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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