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Arrowroot Blancomange

A sweet, thickened milk dessert made with arrowroot, sweetener, flavoring, and garnished with colored jellies.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Arrowroot and milk work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 817 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Arrowroot Blancomange

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Mix 2 teaspoons of arrowroot with a little cold water.

  2. Pour the mixture over 1 pint of boiling milk, adding sweetener and flavoring to taste.

  3. Place the mixture over the heat and stir constantly for 2 to 3 minutes.

Set and serve

  1. Pour into a mold and garnish with colored jellies.

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. Arrowroot + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together817 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Arrowroot
Thickens the milk into a smooth, glossy pudding as it heats.
Milk
Forms the body of the pudding and carries the sweetness and flavor.

The step that matters

Stirring while the mixture heats. Arrowroot starch can clump if it sits unstirred in hot liquid. Constant stirring spreads the starch evenly so it thickens smoothly rather than in lumps.

“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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