Why it works: Milk and condensed milk work together. They rank in the top 61% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
2 quarts milk, 2 cans condensed milk, i cup sugar, flavor to taste. This makes i gallon.
MRS. R. BILLINGS.
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. See the original page.
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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.
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Milk + condensed milktop 61% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together0 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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