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Coffee Junket

Coffee Junket is a coffee-flavored pudding made with junket, milk, sugar, and coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Coffee Junket

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Crush and dissolve the junket tablet in 1 tablespoon of water.

  2. Heat 2 cups of milk in a saucepan.

  3. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of coffee to the milk.

Set and serve

  1. Remove from heat and let it cool until lukewarm.

  2. Stir in the dissolved junket tablet.

  3. Serve with cream.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

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

  3. Junket + sugartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together82 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Junket + creamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Junket tablet
Rennet enzyme that coagulates the milk proteins, setting the mixture into a soft curd.
Milk
Provides the protein and liquid base that sets into the junket custard.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the coffee flavour.
Coffee
Provides the main flavour and aroma of the dessert.

The step that matters

Let the milk cool until lukewarm before stirring in the junket tablet. Rennet works best at lukewarm temperatures; if the milk is too hot, the enzyme can be weakened or destroyed, so the junket may fail to set properly.

“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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