Name: Hot Milk and Water
Ingredients: ½ cup boiling water; ½ cup fresh milk

Hot Milk and Water

Ingredients

½ cup boiling water
½ cup fresh milk

Directions

Combine boiling water and fresh milk in equal parts. Stir well and serve immediately.

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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What each ingredient does

Fresh milk: Provides richness and a creamy, mild flavour to the drink.
Boiling water: Heats the milk and dilutes it to a lighter, drinkable consistency.

“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.