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Mustard Whey

A drink made by mixing boiling milk with prepared mustard and straining the whey.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,658 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mustard Whey

Ingredients

Directions

Make the whey

  1. Pour boiling milk into a bowl.

  2. Stir in prepared mustard.

  3. Strain the mixture to separate the whey from the curd.

Serve

  1. Drink the whey while in bed.

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 + mustardtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Its proteins clump into curds when curdled, and the liquid whey is what remains after straining.
Prepared mustard
Its acidity helps the hot milk curdle, separating the curds from the whey.

“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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