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Spinach with Milk, American Style

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Why it works: Spinach and milk work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 914 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Spinach with Milk, American Style

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare and cook the spinach as directed in recipe No. 1-445.

  2. Use boiled milk instead of meat gravy.

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. Spinach + milktop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together914 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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