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Mutton Diet

A simple diet plan featuring bread, tea, mutton, egg, milk, porter, wine, and fresh vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Mutton Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For breakfast, serve 6 oz of bread with ½ pint of tea.

  2. For dinner, boil ½ lb of mutton (excluding bone) and serve with 6 oz of bread.

  3. For supper, serve 4 oz of bread with ½ pint of tea.

  4. Extras include 1 egg, ½ pint of new milk, ½ pint of porter, or 4 oz of wine, along with fresh vegetables as ordered.

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 + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Tea + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

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

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Tea + winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Provides the main protein and substance of the dinner meal.
Bread
Supplies starch and bulk to the breakfast, dinner and supper portions.
Egg
Adds protein and binding when included as an extra.

“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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