Digested Milk
Ingredients
Directions
Make the mixture
Boil 1 pint of milk and 1 pint of well-boiled gruel together.
Add 30 grains of carbonate of soda.
Stir in 2 teaspoons of liquid pancreaticus.
Hold and finish
Maintain the mixture at the same temperature for 3 hours.
Finally, boil well before serving.
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
- Milk
- Provides the liquid base and most of the fat and protein in the drink.
- Well-boiled gruel
- Adds starch that thickens the mixture and gives it body.
- Carbonate of soda
- Makes the mixture more alkaline, shifting its acidity toward neutral.
- Liquid pancreaticus
- Contains digestive enzymes that begin breaking down proteins and starches.
The step that matters
Holding the mixture for 3 hours. The enzymes need time at a steady temperature to act on the milk and gruel. Boiling well at the end stops that activity, so the final boil must come after the full holding time.
“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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