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Fever Diet

A diet for fever including beer, bread, water gruel, milk, beef, butter, rice, and rice pudding.

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 ↓

Fever Diet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For breakfast, consume 2 pints of beer and 14 oz. of bread.

  2. Prepare water gruel and have 12 oz. of bread.

  3. Drink 1 pint of milk with 14 oz. of bread.

  4. Repeat the beer and bread for lunch.

  5. For dinner, have ½ lb. of beef, cooked twice a week, along with 4 oz. of butter.

  6. Include rice pudding three times a week.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Beer
Supplies fluid and calories in the daily meal plan.
Bread
Provides starch and bulk as the main solid food in each meal.
Milk
Adds fluid and richness to the breakfast drink.
Beef
Provides protein and savoury flavour at dinner.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the dinner.

“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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