Name: To Make Milk Broth or Porridge
Ingredients: thin oatmeal gruel; milk; coarse sea salt; toasted bread

Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

To Make Milk Broth or Porridge

Ingredients

thin oatmeal gruel
milk
coarse sea salt
toasted bread

Directions

Make the porridge

In a pot, bring thin oatmeal gruel to a boil.
Add an equal amount of milk to the boiling gruel.
Season with coarse sea salt to taste.

Serve

Serve with toasted bread.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Thin oatmeal gruel: Provides the starchy base that thickens into the body of the porridge.
Milk: Adds creaminess, moisture and mild sweetness to the boiled gruel.

“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.