Name: Gin and Milk
Ingredients: 1 glass of gin; cold milk

Why it works: Gin and milk work together. They rank in the top 37% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 39 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Gin and Milk

Ingredients

1 glass of gin
cold milk

Directions

Pour gin into a whiskey glass.
Place a spoon in the glass.
Allow the customer to help themselves.
Fill the glass with cold milk.

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.

Gin + milktop 37% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together39 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Gin: Provides the alcoholic spirit and the sharp, botanical flavour of the drink.
Cold milk: Dilutes the gin and mellows its bite, giving the drink a smooth, creamy texture.

“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.