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Milk Diet

A diet plan consisting of milk, bread, butter, fish, potatoes, minced beef, milk pudding, green vegetables, and treacle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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

Meals

  1. For breakfast, serve 1 pint of milk with 2 ounces of bread and 2 ounces of butter.

  2. For dinner, serve 1 pint of milk, 7 ounces of boiled fish, 3 ounces of mashed potatoes, and 2 ounces of minced beef. Alternate with 4 ounces of milk pudding and 1 ounce of green vegetables.

Snack

  1. For a snack, have 2 ounces of bread with butter or treacle.

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. Potato + beeftop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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

  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 the main liquid and dairy base of each meal.
Bread
Adds starch and bulk, eaten plain or with butter or treacle.
Fish
Serves as the boiled main protein at dinner.
Potatoes
Adds starchy bulk to the dinner plate when mashed.
Minced beef
Adds a second meat portion to the dinner plate.

“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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