Name: Mustard Whey
Ingredients: 1 pint cow's milk; 1 ounce bruised mustard seed; ½ cup Madeira wine

Why it works: Milk and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,658 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mustard Whey

Ingredients

1 pint cow's milk
1 ounce bruised mustard seed
½ cup Madeira wine

Directions

Simmer the cow's milk and bruised mustard seed together until the curd separates.
Add the Madeira wine and stir well.
Take a spoonful every hour or two in cases of low fevers and debilitated stomachs.

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.

Milk + mustardtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,658 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Milk + madeira winetop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together100 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Mustard + madeira winetop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together33 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).