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Peptonised Milk

A milk beverage made by mixing peptoned milk powder with water and fresh milk, then sweetened with milk sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Peptonised Milk

Why it works: Milk and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Peptonised Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put one powder into a nursing bottle.

  2. Add filtered water and fresh sweet milk.

  3. Shake together and keep warm in a water bath for about 30 minutes before feeding.

  4. Sweeten with milk sugar.

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 + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Fresh sweet milk
Supplies the main liquid, fat and milk proteins that the powder breaks down.
Milk sugar
Adds sweetness to the finished milk.

The step that matters

Keep the bottle warm in a water bath for the full time. The enzymes in the powder work on the milk proteins most effectively when the mixture stays warm. If it cools early, the breakdown slows and the milk is only partly treated, so hold it warm for the whole period before feeding.

“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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