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Milk Water

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 25 ingredients
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Why it works: Endive and dock share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Milk Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 1 gallon of water and let it cool.

  2. Strain the water through a gauze sieve.

  3. Sweeten the strained water to taste.

  4. Bottle the sweetened water and let it sit overnight before using.

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. Endive + docktop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sage + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together642 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Fennel + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Endive + horseradishtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Sage + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (endive, sage, dock, rose, fennel, horseradish, nutmeg):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against endive, sage, dock, rose, fennel, horseradish, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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