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A meal consisting of oatmeal, buttermilk, boiled meat, potatoes, bread, and barley‑vegetable broth.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and barley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook 1 ½ cups oatmeal in water until thickened.

  2. Boil 6 oz of meat until tender.

  3. Boil 16 oz of potatoes until soft.

  4. Prepare 1 ½ cups of broth using barley, vegetables, and 2 oz of meat.

Serve

  1. Serve with 1 pint of buttermilk.

  2. Serve 3 oz of bread with the meal.

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

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

  2. Bread + barleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

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

  3. Meat + barleytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Thickens in water to form the bulk of the porridge.
Buttermilk
Adds tang and moisture to the meal.
Potatoes
Soften through boiling to give starchy bulk.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Chivefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against buttermilk, meat, bread, 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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