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Oatmeal and Honey

A simple hot drink made by mixing oatmeal, honey, and an egg yolk with boiling water and boiling briefly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Honey and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,150 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Oatmeal and Honey

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the oatmeal, honey, and egg yolk together in a bowl.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the mixture.

  3. Boil the entire mixture for a few minutes.

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. Honey + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Thickens the drink and gives it a soft, starchy body.
Egg yolk
Adds richness and helps give the drink a smooth, creamy texture.
Honey
Adds sweetness and a mild floral flavour.

“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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