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Preservation of Milk

Milk preserved by dissolving sugar in water, boiling, adding cream, cooling, and bottling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Preservation of Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the sugar in just enough water to make a rich syrup.

  2. Boil the syrup, then add the cream and stir well.

  3. Once cooled, pour the mixture into a bottle and seal it tightly.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

White sugar
Sweetens the mixture and, at high concentration, binds water so microbes have less to grow in.
Cream
Adds fat and milk solids that give the preserve richness and a smooth, creamy body.

The step that matters

Cool the mixture fully before bottling. Pouring in warm liquid and sealing it traps steam and heat, which can create condensation and pressure inside the bottle. Cooling first keeps the texture stable and the seal reliable.

“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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