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🥤 A sweet drink 🧂 A sweet powder
malted milk

malted milk

2.9
A sweet powder of dried milk and malt that you add to drinks or food
  • noun
  • /ˈmɔltɪd mɪlk/
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  • When making a delicious malt shake, remember to add malted milk for a richer flavor.

Examples

  • She enjoyed a cold drink made with malted milk and fresh bananas after the workout.

  • So milk crumbs plus malted milk powder equals malted milk crumbs and so on.

  • To make a creamy dessert, mix chocolate syrup with malted milk powder and ice cream.

Surface Forms

malted milk singular
malted milks plural

Morphology

malted + milk

The term is a straightforward combination of 'malted' (made with malt) and 'milk', so the product meaning — milk or a milk-based powder flavored/processed with malted grains — can be directly inferred from the constituents. This ingredient+milk composition is a common, transparent pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.

Etymology

Malted milk comes from a powder made by drying milk together with malted grain so it becomes an easy-to-store 'powder'. The name joins malted (grain with a sweet, toasty taste) and milk, and that is why the powder is used to make sweet, creamy drinks or to add flavor.