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Sims Malted Wheat Breakfast Food

A hot breakfast made with Sims Malted Wheat, boiled water and milk, seasoned with salt and figs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Sims Malted Wheat Breakfast Food

Ingredients

Directions

Make the porridge

  1. In a double boiler, combine boiling water and boiling milk.

  2. Slowly stir in Sims Malted Wheat and salt.

  3. Boil for 20 to 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. For added flavor, boil a little longer.

Finish and serve

  1. Five minutes before serving, add chopped figs.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Wheat + figtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Milk + figtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,026 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Sims malted wheat
Thickens the liquid into a porridge as its starch swells during simmering.
Chopped figs
Add sweetness and chewy texture to the finished porridge.
Milk
Adds richness and a creamier body than water alone.

The step that matters

Stirring in the Malted Wheat. Adding the cereal slowly while stirring prevents lumps, because dry starch clumps when it hits hot liquid before it can disperse evenly.

Swap the fig

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, wheat):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Figthe original
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Blueberryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, wheat. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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