Name: Milk Diet
Ingredients: ½ pint milk; 2 ounces bread; butter

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

½ pint milk
2 ounces bread
butter

Directions

Serve ½ pint of milk with 2 ounces of bread and butter for breakfast.
Serve ⅓ pint of milk or ½ pint of beef tea for dinner.
Serve ½ pint of milk with 2 ounces of bread and butter for tea.
Serve ½ pint of milk with 2 ounces of bread and butter for supper.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 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, moisture and gentle nourishment across the day's meals.
Bread: Adds starch and bulk to the meals it accompanies.
Butter: Adds fat and richness to the bread.

“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.