Name: Acidulated Milk
Ingredients: 12 grains powdered citric acid; 1½ cups fresh milk

Acidulated Milk

Ingredients

12 grains powdered citric acid
1½ cups fresh milk

Directions

Mix the powdered citric acid with the fresh milk. Stir until well combined.

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

Citric acid: Adds acidity that sours the milk and gives it a tangy flavor.
Fresh milk: Serves as the base liquid that the acid acts on and gives the body of the mixture.

“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.