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To Make Coffee with Milk

A beverage made by brewing coffee with milk and egg white.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,202 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

To Make Coffee with Milk

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

  1. Dampen the ground coffee with egg white.

  2. Add enough cold water to cover the coffee.

  3. Pour in 1 cup of boiling water and boil for 2 minutes.

Add milk and finish

  1. Add 1 pint of cold fresh milk and boil for 12 minutes.

  2. Let it stand for 5 minutes to settle.

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. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

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

  2. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Coffee + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground coffee
Provides the main coffee flavor and body of the drink.
Egg white
Binds fine coffee grounds to help them settle clear after boiling.
Fresh milk
Adds richness and softens the bitterness of the coffee.

The step that matters

Let it stand for 5 minutes to settle. Resting lets the grounds and egg white bind and sink, leaving a clear drink. Skipping the rest leaves grounds suspended in the cup.

“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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