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Iced Coffee

A beverage made by brewing strong coffee, adding hot milk, and serving over cracked ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,202 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Iced Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Brew more coffee than usual to make it stronger.

  2. Add ⅓ cup of hot milk for each cup of coffee and set aside to cool.

  3. Once cold, pour over cracked ice in each glass and serve as dessert.

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. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

Coffee
Provides the main roasted flavour and bitterness of the drink.
Hot milk
Softens the coffee's bitterness and adds creaminess and body.
Cracked ice
Chills the drink quickly, and its meltwater gradually dilutes it.

The step that matters

Brewing the coffee stronger than usual. Melting ice and the milk add water as the drink is poured and sipped, which dilutes the flavour. Starting with stronger coffee keeps the finished drink tasting balanced rather than weak.

“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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