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Cream Milk

A beverage made by mixing cow's milk with lactose solution or sterile water and sweetening with sugar.

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

Cream Milk

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Combine equal parts of cow's milk and a 9% lactose solution or sterile water.

  2. Pass the mixture through a centrifugal separator to ensure equal outgoing streams.

  3. If using sterile water, add 4% lactose or cane sugar after separation.

Stand and finish

  1. Mix equal parts of milk and previously boiled water.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 3 hours.

  3. Discard the lower half and add sugar to the remaining liquid.

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

Cow's milk
Supplies the fat and proteins that give the finished drink its creamy body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the finished liquid.

The step that matters

Pass the mixture through a centrifugal separator to ensure equal outgoing streams. Separation depends on the two outgoing streams being balanced. If the flows are uneven, the fat and liquid portions will not match the intended proportions, so the final mixture will be off in richness and texture.

“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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