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Peptonised Milk Punch

A chilled drink made with peptonised milk, rum, Curacao, ice, sweetener, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rum and nutmeg work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 646 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Peptonised Milk Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a goblet one-third full with fine crushed ice.

  2. Pour 1 tablespoon of St. Croix rum over the ice.

  3. Add a dash of Curacao or other preferred liquor.

  4. Fill the glass with peptonised milk and stir well.

  5. Sweeten to taste and grate a little nutmeg on top.

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. Rum + nutmegtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together646 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Rum + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together967 recipes

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

  3. Milk + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Peptonised milk
Forms the creamy body of the drink and softens the sharp taste of the spirits.
St. croix rum
Provides the main spirit flavour, adding warmth and depth to the drink.
Curacao or other preferred liquor
Adds a citrus-sweet aroma and a touch of extra flavour.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, milk):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Gingerfits less well
  4. Mintfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, milk. 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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