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Sterilized Milk for Infants

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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and lime work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 700 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Sterilized Milk for Infants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour the desired quantity of milk into a clean fruit jar.

  2. Place the jar in a boiler filled with cold water.

  3. Bring the water to a boil and maintain it for 15 minutes.

  4. Boil all water used for diluting the milk.

  5. Add lime water before filling the nursery bottles.

  6. Discard any remaining milk in the bottle after feeding.

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. Milk + limetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together700 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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