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Chocolate Made with Condensed Milk

A chocolate confection prepared by mixing plain chocolate with water and condensed milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Condensed milk and chocolate work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 541 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Chocolate Made with Condensed Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare plain chocolate using water instead of milk.

  2. Add 3 tablespoons of condensed milk when incorporating the chocolate.

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. Condensed milk + chocolatetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together541 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Condensed milk
Adds sweetness and a creamy, smooth body to the chocolate.
Chocolate
Provides the main flavour and sets firm as it cools.

“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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