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Milk and Water

A simple beverage made by mixing new milk with river or spring water, served cold or warmed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Milk and Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the new milk with the river or spring water.

  2. Serve cold, or warm by adding warm water to the cold milk until it reaches a warm temperature.

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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What each ingredient does

New milk
Provides the dairy base, giving the drink its richness and creamy body.

“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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