Name: Beef Tea, Brandy and Milk
Ingredients: ½ cup pale brandy; 1 cup cold beef tea (or ½ cup beef fluid and ½ cup water); 2 cups new milk

Why it works: Beef and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,759 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Beef Tea, Brandy and Milk

Ingredients

½ cup pale brandy
1 cup cold beef tea (or ½ cup beef fluid and ½ cup water)
2 cups new milk

Directions

Mix together the brandy, cold beef tea, and new milk.
Serve as a restorative drink.

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.

Beef + milktop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,759 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).
Brandy + milktop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,738 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Brandy + beeftop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,000 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).