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Pate Au Lait

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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 ↓

Pate Au Lait

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm some milk ; add a very small piece of butter, some salt to your flour, and wet it with

  2. 4 PASTE FOB TABTS^

  3. some warm milk till a good paste ; then lay it aside for au hour to rise. This paste is used for croquettes and croquignolles. By adding a little yeast to this paste^ it makes very delicious rolls.

  4. PATE AUX (EUFS FOR BRIOCHES, GATEAUX DES ROIS.

  5. Take the proportions of three eggs to a pound of flour; mix ahout a quarter of a pound of hutter and a little salt in a pound of flour ; then break in the eggs, and mix them^ adding a little warm water till a light paste ; add a little yeasty and lay it by, covered over, to rise for four hours ; then work it again, roll it out and use it. When you add sugar and candied lemon-peel, working the paste well, it is used to make the little cakes called " gateaux des rois/^

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

682Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
108 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Frances Crawford. 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. 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.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, 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

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