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Thai Iced Tea

"You can always find this creamy, bitter, super-sweet energizing drink at your favorite Thai restaurants. But now you can enjoy it at home as well! Perfect for backyard BBQs. Serve with a straw!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Black tea and condensed milk work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

4 drinks
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Bring the water to a boil in a medium saucepan.

  2. Remove the pan from the heat, add the tea bags, and steep for 5 minutes.

  3. Remove and discard the tea bags, then stir in the sugar until fully dissolved.

  4. Stir half of the sweetened condensed milk and half of the half-and-half into the warm tea.

  5. Let the tea cool to room temperature, then refrigerate for at least 1 hour until well chilled.

  6. Divide the chilled tea among 4 glasses. Stir the remaining condensed milk and half-and-half into each glass just before serving.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Black tea + condensed milktop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tea + black teatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Sugar + condensed milktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Black tea + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Tea + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,204 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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