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MUk with Tender Meat, Flour, Butter, and Sintp9

A mixture of tender meat, mashed potatoes, eggs, toasted wheat bread, butter, trout, milk, cocoa, zwieback, wheat bread, cakes, tapioca flour, corn flour, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

MUk with Tender Meat, Flour, Butter, and Sintp9

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook the tender meat until fully done.

  2. Prepare mashed potatoes and set aside.

  3. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  4. Toast the wheat bread and spread with butter.

  5. Cook the trout until flaky.

  6. Heat the milk and mix in cocoa.

  7. Combine zwieback, wheat bread, cakes, tapioca flour, corn flour, and sugar in a bowl.

Bake and serve

  1. Mix all ingredients together and serve.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Potato + wheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together235 recipes

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

  5. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and add structure as they set.
Tapioca flour
Thickens the mixture and adds a soft, chewy texture.
Corn flour
Thickens the mixture and helps set its texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and softens the dry ingredients.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for flavour and tenderness.
Mashed potatoes
Adds moisture and body to the mixture.

Swap the cocoa

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, potato, egg, wheat, bread, butter, milk):

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Pecansfits better
  4. Cocoathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, potato, egg, wheat, bread, butter, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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