Why it works: Milk and junket work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Whey
Ingredients
Directions
Make the curd
Heat the milk to 98°F (37°C).
Add the rennet or crushed junket tablet dissolved in 2 teaspoons cold water.
When firm, break up the curd.
Strain and flavor
Strain through a double thickness of cheesecloth.
Add sugar and nutmeg if desired.
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.
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Milk + junkettop 20% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together103 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Milk
- Provides the proteins that set into curd, and the liquid that drains off as whey.
- Rennet
- Enzyme that clots the milk proteins into a firm curd.
The step that matters
Heat the milk to 98°F (37°C). Rennet works best near body temperature. Milk that is too hot can destroy the enzyme, and milk that is too cold sets slowly or not at all, so the curd may fail to firm.
“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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