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Tea Cbbah

A sweet tea beverage made with green tea, milk, egg yolks, and powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Tea Cbbah

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tea

  1. Boil the green tea in the milk for a few minutes.

  2. Strain the mixture.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the beaten egg yolks and powdered sugar.

  2. Heat the mixture on the stove and reduce it by half.

  3. Strain it again and let it cool before serving.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Green tea + milktop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

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

  5. Green tea + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Green tea
Gives the drink its characteristic tea flavor and aroma.
Milk
Forms the liquid base and adds body and creaminess as it reduces.
Egg yolks
Add richness and body, thickening the drink as it heats.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the warm liquid.

The step that matters

Reducing the mixture on the stove after adding the egg yolks. Egg yolks thicken and can curdle or scramble when overheated. Heating gently and stirring keeps the mixture smooth while the liquid reduces.

“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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