Why it works: Milk and madeira wine work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 100 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Renter Whey
Ingredients
Directions
If the rennet is salted, soak it well.
Add the rennet to 1 pint of lukewarm milk and let it sit for a few minutes to turn into whey.
For a larger batch, use ¼ cup of Madeira wine with 1 quart of lukewarm milk.
Consume the curd while soft or drink the whey alone.
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 + madeira winetop 30% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together100 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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