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Milk with Isinglass

A drink made by adding isinglass to boiling milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Milk with Isinglass

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 1 pint of boiling milk over ½ oz. of isinglass.

  2. Allow it to cool before serving.

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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What each ingredient does

Isinglass
Sets the milk into a soft, jelly-like texture as it cools.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the isinglass sets into a creamy dish.

“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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