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Milk Soup with Sago

A sweet milk soup made with sago pearls, cream, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Milk Soup with Sago

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the milk in a pot.

  2. In a separate pot, boil the sago in water until tender.

Make the soup

  1. Sweeten the water used for the sago, then pour it into the milk.

  2. Heat the mixture gently, being careful not to let it boil.

Finish and serve

  1. Just before serving, stir in the cream and the beaten eggs.

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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Milk
Forms the liquid base and gives the soup its creamy, mild dairy flavour.
Sago
Starch that swells and thickens the soup as it cooks until tender.
Cream
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, velvety mouthfeel.
Eggs
Thicken and enrich the soup when gently heated with the other liquids.
Sugar
Adds sweetness, balancing the mild dairy flavour.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture gently, being careful not to let it boil.. Egg proteins set at high heat and can curdle or turn grainy in a dairy mixture. Gentle heat keeps the eggs smooth and lets the soup thicken evenly.

“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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