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Farinaceous Milk

A thickened milk made by blending baked flour with cold milk and heating with hot milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Farinaceous Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Blend the well-baked flour with a little cold milk until smooth.

  2. Mix this with the hot milk.

  3. Boil for five minutes, stirring carefully to prevent burning.

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. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Well-baked flour
Thickens the hot milk as its starch swells, giving the drink a smooth, body-filled texture.
Hot milk
Forms the liquid base that the flour thickens into a smooth, creamy drink.

The step that matters

Boil for five minutes, stirring carefully. Flour must be blended smooth first and the mixture stirred while it boils, because settled flour scorches on the base of the pan and starch needs heat and movement to thicken evenly.

“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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