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Preparation of Condensed Milk, Cream and Lime Water

A mixture of condensed milk, lime water, and cream used as infant feeding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Condensed milk and cream work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 416 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Preparation of Condensed Milk, Cream and Lime Water

Ingredients

Directions

Mix

  1. Mix 2 teaspoons of sweetened condensed milk with 2 teaspoons of lime water.

  2. Add 10 drops of cream to the mixture.

Feed

  1. Gradually increase the cream by 5 drops each week until reaching 30 drops.

  2. Feed the mixture to the infant regularly, ensuring it is well tolerated.

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. Condensed milk + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together416 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Condensed milk + limetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lime + creamtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together740 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetened condensed milk
Provides sweetness and body, giving the thin liquid a fuller, creamier texture.
Cream
Adds fat, making the mixture richer and smoother in texture.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (condensed milk, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against condensed milk, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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