malted milk
malted milk noun: a powder made by mixing malted barley, flour and milk, the mixture then being dried by evaporation; initially developed as a nutritional supplement, later used as a flavouring.
Noun
malted milk (countable and uncountable, plural malted milks)
- A powder made by mixing malted barley, flour and milk, the mixture then being dried by evaporation; initially developed as a nutritional supplement, later used as a flavouring.
- The diet was also changed to malted milk — from one-half to one ounce given at a feeding. The careful diet, stomach-washing with doses of one grain of cerium oxalate in one-half drachm of chalk mixture, given hourly, were ineffectual.1892, E. B. Treat, Archives of Pediatrics, volume 9, page 88
- Malted milk powder is essentially a nutritional supplement, but it has a sweet, toasty milk flavor (think malt balls and malted milkshakes) that makes it a popular partner for chocolate.2008, Charity Ferreira, Brittles, Barks, and Bonbons, page 53
- A hot beverage made from a mixture of malted barley, flour, and milk.
- A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavour.
- More dispensers fail with malted milk than with any one drink that I know about. There seems to be less knowledge of what a good malted milk should taste like than there is concerning any other drink.1918, Irving P. Fox, The Spatula, volume 24, page 146
- One of the committee′s many marketing environment studies concerned malted milk consumption. The study revealed that while malted milk was a popular drink among young persons, virtually all of the consumption of the product took place outside the home.1979, William F. O'Dell, Andrew C. Ruppel, Robert H. Trent, Marketing Decision Making: Analytic Framework and Cases, page 207
- Synonyms:
- malted
Examples of malted milk in a sentence
- Some milkshake recipes included malted milk powder, which would eventually become known as “malteds”.2009, Darcy S O′Neil, Fix the Pumps, page 44:
- Matty and Trev sharing a malted milk together!2003 February 25, DAVO, “**Exclusive** Big Brother 3 details”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
- Another example of this method comes from my youth, when we would go to a soda fountain for a malted milk.2009, J. R. Parrish, You Don′t Have to Learn the Hard Way: Making It in the Real World: A Guide for Graduates, page 33:
Synonyms of malted milk
Forms of malted milk
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Questions about malted milk
- What does malted milk mean?
- Malted milk means a powder made by mixing malted barley, flour and milk, the mixture then being dried by evaporation; initially developed as a nutritional supplement, later used as a flavouring.
- How do you use malted milk in a sentence?
- Some milkshake recipes included malted milk powder, which would eventually become known as “malteds”.
- What part of speech is malted milk?
- Malted milk is a noun.
- What is the plural of malted milk?
- The plural of malted milk is malted milks.
Words near malted milk in the dictionary
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