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A simple daily diet plan including bread, butter, tea, milk, sugar, beef or mutton, potatoes or vegetables, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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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 ↓

Full Diet

Ingredients

Directions

Breakfast and tea

  1. For breakfast, serve 12 ounces of bread with 5 ounces of butter.

  2. Brew ½ pint of tea.

  3. Add milk and sugar to taste.

  4. For tea, repeat the same as breakfast.

Dinner and milk

  1. Cook 4 ounces of beef or mutton by roasting or boiling, alternating methods.

  2. Serve 1 pound of potatoes or fresh vegetables as a side.

  3. Drink ½ pint of milk in the forenoon.

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

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

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

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

  3. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

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

  5. Tea + potatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together136 recipes

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

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 starchy base for the breakfast and tea servings.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour across the bread.
Beef or mutton
Supplies the main protein, which firms and browns as it cooks.
Potatoes or fresh vegetables
Adds starch or fibre and moisture as the side dish.

“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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