Why it works: Milk and port wine work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 135 recipes. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
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Ingredients
Directions
Boil the milk in a saucepan.
Add the port wine to the boiling milk.
Strain the mixture.
Sweeten to taste for serving.
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.
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Milk + port winetop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together135 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).
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What each ingredient does
- Milk
- Forms the base liquid and provides the creamy body of the drink.
- Port wine
- Adds sweetness, fruity aroma and acidity that flavour the milk.
The step that matters
Adding the port wine to the boiling milk. Port is acidic and alcohol-containing; adding it to hot milk can cause curdling or separation, so the milk should be at a boil when the wine goes in and the mixture strained afterward to smooth out any curds.
“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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