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A daily diet plan including bread, porter, dressed meat, potatoes, rice pudding, mutton broth, vegetable soup, butter, porridge, gruel, and barley-water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and barley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 568 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Full or Extra Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve 14 oz. of bread daily.

  2. For males, include 1 pint of porter; for females, ½ pint.

  3. Alternate roasting and boiling 6 oz. of dressed meat.

  4. Serve 8 oz. of potatoes with the meat.

  5. Prepare 1 lb. of rice pudding three times a week.

  6. On days with boiled meat, add ½ pint of mutton broth.

  7. Occasionally serve 1 pint of strong vegetable soup with meat and rice pudding twice a week.

  8. Include 1 oz. of butter each day.

  9. Provide porridge, gruel, and barley-water as needed.

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. Rice + barleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Potato + barleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

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

  3. Potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Bread + muttontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 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

Bread
Provides the bulk of the daily carbohydrate and fills the diet.
Dressed meat
Supplies protein and fat as the main substantial food of the diet.
Potatoes
Add starchy bulk alongside the meat, making the meal more filling.
Rice pudding
Adds soft, milky sweetness and energy-dense starch to the weekly menu.
Butter
Adds fat, which carries flavour and adds richness to the diet.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, meat, rice, mutton, butter, barley):

  1. Leekfits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Shallotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, meat, rice, mutton, butter, barley. 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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