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Wheat Germ Meal Porridge

A porridge made by mixing wheat germ meal with cold water, then adding hot milk and seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Wheat Germ Meal Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

Make the porridge

  1. Wet the wheat germ meal in cold water to form a thick mush.

  2. Thin the mush to a gruel-like consistency with hot milk.

  3. Cook in a farina kettle for 15 minutes after the water in the outer vessel boils.

Serve

  1. Add salt to taste and serve with cream.

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. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Wheat + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together681 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Wheat germ meal
Forms the thick base of the porridge, giving it body and a nutty grain flavor.
Hot milk
Thins the mush into a smooth gruel and adds richness and sweetness.

The step that matters

Wetting the wheat germ meal in cold water. Starting with cold water lets the meal hydrate evenly into a thick mush before thinning. Adding liquid too quickly can leave lumps that do not smooth out during cooking.

“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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