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Coffee Milk

A beverage made by boiling milk with ground coffee and isinglass, then straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Coffee Milk

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 ↓

Coffee Milk

Ingredients

Directions

Make the infusion

  1. Combine the ground coffee and milk in a saucepan.

  2. Boil for 15 minutes with the isinglass.

Settle and separate

  1. Let it stand for 10 minutes.

  2. Pour off the liquid, leaving any sediment behind.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the liquid base and carries the coffee flavor, adding body and mild sweetness.
Ground coffee
Supplies the coffee flavor and aroma that the milk takes up during boiling.
Isinglass
Acts as a fining agent, binding fine particles so they settle out of the liquid.

The step that matters

Pour off the liquid, leaving any sediment behind. Isinglass and coffee grounds settle into sediment during standing. Tipping or stirring the pot disturbs that layer and returns cloudy particles to the drink, so pour slowly and stop before the sediment reaches the spout.

“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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