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French Modes of Preparing Milk Coffee

Milk coffee made by boiling milk, adding coffee, boiling again, then adding cold water and letting stand.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,202 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

French Modes of Preparing Milk Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the milk in a pot.

  2. Add the coffee to the boiled milk and boil three times without settling.

  3. Remove the pot from the heat and add the cold spring water.

  4. Let it stand for 7 to 8 minutes before serving.

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. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

New milk
Provides the main liquid and body, and its proteins and fats give the drink a creamy texture.
Coffee
Supplies the coffee flavour and aroma that infuse into the hot milk.
Cold spring water
Added off the heat to cool the mixture slightly and help the coffee grounds settle.

The step that matters

Boiling the coffee into the milk three times without settling. Boiling the milk and coffee together lets the milk proteins and coffee flavour combine. Letting the pot boil over or stirring it aggressively can scorch the milk, so the boils should be controlled.

“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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