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Thai Iced Tea with Star Anise Recipe

A spicy and refreshing drink, topped with half-and-half or sweetened condensed milk.What to buy: Look for orange flower water at Kalustyan's.com

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Black tea and condensed milk work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

1/2 gallon

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Black tea + condensed milktop 27% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Star anise + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Star anise + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Orange + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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