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Thickened Milk

A thickened milk made by adding a paste of Indian meal to boiling milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Thickened Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 1 pint of milk in a double boiler.

  2. Add ½ teaspoon of coarse sea salt.

  3. Mix 1 heaping tablespoon of finely sifted Indian meal with enough cold milk to make a smooth paste.

  4. Stir the mixture into the boiling milk.

  5. Boil and stir for 15 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Indian meal
Cornmeal starch swells in hot milk, thickening the liquid into a porridge-like consistency.

The step that matters

Stirring the paste into the boiling milk. Adding the meal as a smooth paste, and stirring constantly, keeps starch granules dispersed so they swell evenly instead of clumping into lumps.

“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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