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Top Milk

A milk beverage prepared by removing cream and diluting with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Top Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For young infants, remove all the cream and enough milk from the top of the quart bottle to make 9 ounces, then mix the 9 ounces of milk in a pitcher or bowl for dilution.

  2. For older infants, remove all the cream and enough milk to make 16 ounces (1 pint), then mix the 16 ounces of milk in a pitcher or bowl for dilution.

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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What each ingredient does

Mixed milk
Serves as the base liquid that is portioned and diluted for the infant feed.

“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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