Name: Cider Kept Sweet All the Winter
Ingredients: 1 pound white mustard seed; 2 eggs, beaten; 1 pint fresh milk

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 ↓

Cider Kept Sweet All the Winter

Ingredients

1 pound white mustard seed
2 eggs, beaten
1 pint fresh milk

Directions

Bruise the mustard seed.
In a bowl, combine the bruised mustard seed, beaten eggs, and fresh milk.
When the cider is ready for drinking, pour in the mixture.
Shake the barrel well and seal it tightly.
The cider can be used once it settles.

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.

Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Mustard + milktop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,658 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Mustard + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,210 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).