Name: Montgomery Milk Shake
Ingredients: 2 to 3 tablespoons cold chocolate syrup; cracked ice; rich milk

Why it works: Chocolate and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,128 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Montgomery Milk Shake

Ingredients

2 to 3 tablespoons cold chocolate syrup
cracked ice
rich milk

Directions

In a shaker, combine the cold chocolate syrup and cracked ice.
Fill the shaker with rich milk.
Shake well until combined and chilled.

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.

Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,128 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Chocolate + syruptop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,239 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Syrup + milktop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,143 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate syrup: Provides the chocolate flavour and sweetness that defines the shake.
Rich milk: Supplies the liquid base and creamy body of the shake.

“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.