Treacle Whey
Ingredients
Directions
Make the treacle milk
Boil the milk in a saucepan.
Add the treacle to the boiling milk.
Ensure it boils up once after adding the treacle.
Cool and serve
Set aside to cool.
Strain the mixture before serving.
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
- Treacle
- Adds sweetness, deep flavour and a dark colour to the milk.
- Milk
- Forms the liquid base that the treacle sweetens and flavours.
The step that matters
Boiling up once after adding the treacle. Treacle is sugar-rich and can scorch on the base of the pan or boil over quickly. Bringing the mixture up to a boil once, with the treacle stirred in, helps it dissolve evenly and heats the whole mixture through.
“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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