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Milk and Suet

A simple drink made by boiling suet with water, adding cinnamon, sugar, and milk, then boiling again.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,655 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Milk and Suet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the suet with water for 10 minutes.

  2. Press the mixture through linen or flannel.

  3. Add cinnamon, sugar, and milk to the strained liquid.

  4. Boil again for 10 minutes and strain.

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. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Cinnamon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Suet
Adds fat that enriches the liquid and carries flavour into it as it boils.
Milk
Adds dairy richness and body, softening the flavour of the strained liquid.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the richness of the suet and milk.
Cinnamon
Adds warm aroma that infuses into the liquid during boiling.

The step that matters

Boiling again after adding the milk. Milk contains proteins and sugars that can scorch on the bottom of a pan or boil over quickly. Keeping the heat controlled and stirring helps prevent burning and keeps the liquid smooth before straining.

“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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