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Malted Mile

A sweet beverage made with malted milk powder, hot water, hot milk, sugar, and optional port or sherry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and sherry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,479 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Malted Mile

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the malted milk powder with hot water gradually, stirring continuously until smooth.

  2. Add the hot milk and sweeten with sugar to taste.

  3. If desired, stir in the port or sherry wine.

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 + sherrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,479 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Milk powder + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-undecalactone (coconut, creamy).

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

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

  4. Sugar + sherrytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,141 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Milk powder + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, 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

Malted milk powder
Provides the characteristic malty flavour and sweetness that defines the drink.
Hot milk
Adds creaminess and body, softening the drink's texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, balancing the malt flavour; added to taste.

The step that matters

Mixing the malted milk powder with hot water. Adding the water gradually while stirring continuously keeps the powder from clumping, so the mixture becomes smooth before the milk goes in.

“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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