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Convalescent Diet for Pneumonia

A list of foods and drinks recommended for patients recovering from pneumonia.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Convalescent Diet for Pneumonia

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cereal and rice

  1. Prepare strained cereal and serve with cream.

  2. Prepare strained rice and serve with cream.

Make the drinks and soups

  1. Make cocoa and serve with a soft-cooked egg.

  2. Serve fruit juice.

  3. Prepare cream soup and serve.

  4. Make custard and serve.

  5. Serve milk.

  6. For egg-nog, mix 1 egg with 6 oz milk.

  7. Make cocoa or malted milk and serve.

  8. Serve milk with graham crackers.

Serve the egg and apple sauce

  1. Serve a soft-cooked egg with apple sauce.

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

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

  2. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cocoa + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

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

  5. Cocoa + appletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide protein and structure, and set the custard and egg-nog when cooked.
Milk
Adds moisture, richness and sweetness, and carries the flavour of the cocoa and egg-nog.
Cream
Adds fat for a smooth, rich texture in the cereal and rice.
Cocoa
Provides chocolate flavour and aroma to the drink.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cocoa, egg, milk, rice, sauce):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cocoa, egg, milk, rice, sauce. 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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