Name: Milk and Lime-water
Ingredients: 1 cup iced milk; 2 teaspoons lime water

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 ↓

Milk and Lime-water

Ingredients

1 cup iced milk
2 teaspoons lime water

Directions

Combine the iced milk and lime water in a glass. Stir gently to mix.
Serve in small quantities at frequent intervals.

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.

Milk + limetop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together700 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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What each ingredient does

Milk: Provides the liquid base, fat and milk proteins that give the drink its body and mild sweetness.
Lime water: Adds a mildly alkaline, sharp flavour that balances the richness of the milk.

“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.