Name: Lunch
Ingredients: 6 to 8 oz. Allinson wholemeal bread; ½ lb. raw fruit (in season); 1 glass lemon water or bran tea, Brunak, or thin cocoa; 1 tumbler milk and water

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 ↓

Lunch

Ingredients

6 to 8 oz. Allinson wholemeal bread
½ lb. raw fruit (in season)
1 glass lemon water or bran tea, Brunak, or thin cocoa
1 tumbler milk and water

Directions

Eat 6 to 8 oz. of Allinson wholemeal bread.
Consume about ½ lb. of any raw fruit that is in season.
Afterwards, drink a glass of lemon water, bran tea, Brunak, or a cup of thin cocoa.
Alternatively, sip a tumbler of milk and water.

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.

Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,053 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Bread + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,445 recipes

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