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Egg Drink

A chilled drink made with egg yolk, sugar, warm milk, and soda water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Egg Drink

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the egg and separate the yolk from the white.

  2. In a bowl, mix the yolk and sugar together with a wooden spoon.

  3. Add the warm milk and stir until well combined.

Finish and serve

  1. Slowly pour in the soda water and mix gently.

  2. Serve immediately.

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.

Explore the science

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. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolk
Adds richness and emulsifies the milk into a smooth, creamy base.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the yolk mix into a smooth paste.
Milk
Adds moisture and creaminess to the drink.
Soda water
Adds fizz and a light, lively texture.

The step that matters

Slowly pour in the soda water and mix gently. Carbonation escapes quickly when liquid is agitated, so pouring slowly and stirring gently helps the drink stay fizzy and keeps the foam from collapsing.

“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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