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Wheat Germ Mush

A porridge made by cooking wheat germs in boiling water, served with sugar, cream or milk, or syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Wheat Germ Mush

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil water in the upper portion of a double boiler, with water boiling in the lower portion.

Make the porridge

  1. Gradually sprinkle in the wheat germs and add salt, stirring constantly until it boils.

  2. Cook for 20 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve with sugar and cream or milk, or with syrup.

  2. Fry any leftover mush like cornmeal mush or hominy.

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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Wheat + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together681 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Wheat + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,071 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Wheat germs
Gives the porridge its body and a toasty, nutty flavor as it cooks.
Cream or milk
Adds richness and a creamy texture when served with the porridge.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the finished porridge at serving.

The step that matters

Sprinkling in the wheat germs. Adding the wheat germs gradually while stirring constantly lets each particle hydrate separately, which helps prevent lumps from forming in the porridge.

“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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