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Sterilized Milk

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Sterilized Milk

Why it works: Milk and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sterilized Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour fresh cow's milk into a glass fruit jar.

  2. Add one-third pure water for infants under three months; reduce water as the child grows.

  3. Optionally, add a trifle of sugar.

  4. Place the jar in a kettle or pan of cold water.

  5. Leave the jar cover loose and bring the water to a boil.

  6. Boil for 10 minutes, then screw down the cover tightly and boil for another 10 minutes.

  7. Remove from heat and allow to cool slowly in the water.

  8. Once partly cool, refrigerate or place in a cool area, keeping it tightly covered except when pouring out milk.

  9. Ensure the glass jar is clean and scalded before use.

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 + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Milk + limetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together700 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the lime

The recipe marks lime as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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