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Diet for Age Date Breakfast

A breakfast diet for the aged, consisting of fruit, juice, oatmeal, bread, and a small portion of broiled beef or lamb.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,659 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Diet for Age Date Breakfast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 1 cup of orange juice.

  2. Scrape 1 raw ripe apple and serve.

  3. Serve 1 raw ripe peach or 1/2 cup of stewed peaches.

  4. Serve 1/2 cup of apple sauce.

  5. Serve 1 cup of California grapes, freed of skin and seeds.

  6. Serve 1 baked apple or 1/2 cup of stewed prunes.

  7. Prepare 1 cup of oatmeal or other cereal porridge, cooked well and served with milk and sugar to taste.

  8. Serve a small portion of finely cut broiled beefsteak or lamb chop.

  9. Add 2 slices of bread with butter.

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. Apple + grapetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Apple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peach + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Cereal porridge provides starch and body as the main bulk of the meal.
Beefsteak or lamb chop
Broiled meat supplies protein and richness, finely cut for easy eating.
Bread
Bread with butter adds starch and fat to make the meal more filling.
Grapes
Grapes contribute natural sweetness and moisture as a fresh fruit serving.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, peach, sauce, grape, lamb, bread, butter):

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, peach, sauce, grape, lamb, bread, butter. 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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