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A warm chocolate beverage made by boiling milk, water, and grated chocolate, sweetened to taste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,128 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine milk and water in a saucepan.

  2. Add grated chocolate and bring to a boil.

  3. Boil for five minutes, stirring occasionally.

  4. Sweeten to taste and serve.

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.

  1. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Provides the creamy body and mild sweetness that make the drink smooth.
Grated chocolate
Supplies the chocolate flavor and, once melted, gives the drink its color and richness.

The step that matters

Boil for five minutes, stirring occasionally. Stirring keeps the chocolate dispersed so it does not settle or scorch on the bottom of the pan. Milk can also scorch or boil over if left unattended, so the heat needs watching.

“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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