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Thinned Milk Arrowroot

A thickened milk drink made with arrowroot, maltine, and optional cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Arrowroot and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 166 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Thinned Milk Arrowroot

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the base

  1. Mix the arrowroot with a little milk until smooth.

  2. Boil the mixture, stirring well until cooked and thick.

Cool and finish

  1. Remove from heat and let it cool until drinkable.

  2. Beat with a fork or whisk, then stir in the maltine.

  3. Let it sit for about 30 minutes until it becomes thin.

  4. Optionally, boil a little cinnamon in the milk for flavor.

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. Arrowroot + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Arrowroot + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together817 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Arrowroot
Thickens the milk when heated, giving it a smooth, light body.
Milk
Forms the liquid base and adds richness and body to the dish.
Maltine
Adds malty sweetness and flavor to the thinned milk.

The step that matters

Boil the arrowroot mixture until thick. Arrowroot starch must reach a boil to thicken fully. Stirring while it cooks prevents lumps and scorching on the bottom of the pan.

“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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