Skip to main content
Main

Diet in Disease

A diet plan for disease including specific foods and beverages for each meal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 27 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,418 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Diet in Disease

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix equal parts of hot milk and Seltzer water.

  2. Drink slowly over half an hour.

  3. Prepare oatmeal or cracked wheat with a little sugar and plenty of cream.

  4. Serve rare steak or loin chops, soft-boiled or poached egg, and cream toast with milk and coffee for breakfast.

  5. Have ½ pint of milk or squeezed beef juice with stale bread for lunch.

  6. Serve fish, broiled or stewed chicken, scraped meat ball, stale bread, plenty of butter, baked apples, cream, and 2 glasses of milk for the midday meal.

  7. Enjoy a bottle of koumiss or a raw scraped-beef sandwich with milk for afternoon lunch.

  8. Serve substantial meat or fish soup, rare roast beef or mutton, game, stale bread, spinach, cauliflower, and fresh vegetables in season for dinner.

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.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,418 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + fishtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,202 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Provides moisture, protein and sweetness for the liquid and light meals.
Cream
Adds richness and fat, giving oatmeal and toast a softer, smoother texture.
Eggs
Set when cooked gently, adding structure and protein to a light breakfast.
Stale bread
Dry, firm crumb soaks up liquid and gives a sturdy base for toast and sandwiches.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour across the midday meal.

“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.

You might also like

Brown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesChicken BrothChicken Broth257 recipesRoast BeefRoast Beef211 recipesBeef LoafBeef Loaf175 recipes