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Milk Whey

Milk whey is the liquid byproduct obtained by curdling milk with buttermilk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and buttermilk work together. They rank in the top 41% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Milk Whey

Ingredients

Directions

Curdle the milk

  1. Boil the new milk in a pot.

  2. Once boiling, pour in the buttermilk.

  3. Allow the mixture to curdle.

Strain and serve

  1. Strain the curds through muslin to separate the whey.

  2. Serve the whey as a light, nutritious drink.

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. Milk + buttermilktop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

New milk
Its proteins gather into curds as the milk sours, leaving liquid whey behind.
Buttermilk
Its acidity causes the hot milk to curdle.

The step that matters

Allow the mixture to curdle. The acid in the buttermilk must act on the hot milk long enough for the proteins to clump into firm curds. If the mixture is strained too early, the curds stay fine and the whey remains cloudy and mixed with milk.

“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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