Why it works: Milk and biscuit are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,332 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Butter-milk
Ingredients
Directions
Pour fresh milk from a cow into a churn.
Let it stand for 10 minutes before starting to churn.
Churn until flakes of butter float and the milk looks thin and blue.
Strain off the buttermilk.
Repeat this process twice a day.
Serve as a constant beverage for the sick person, along with hard biscuits and fruit.
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.
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Milk + biscuittop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,332 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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