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Condensed Milk

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,456 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Condensed Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dilute condensed milk with plain boiled water or thin cereal gruel in a ratio of 1 part condensed milk to 16, 12, 8, or 6 parts water/gruel.

  2. Measure the condensed milk accurately using a measuring glass.

  3. Add cream or olive oil if desired.

  4. Serve orange juice every other day or daily as an antiscorbutic.

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. Olive + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cream + olivetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,206 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Cream + orangetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Condensed milk + orangetop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

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