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Sago Pudding

A sweet pudding made from sago, milk, water, and eggs, optionally spiced with mace.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,346 recipes. Both carry sabinene, which smells woody, terpenic. The science ↓

Sago Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the sago in 1 pint of water.

  2. After soaking, add 1 pint of milk.

Bake and serve

  1. For each quart of sago, add 1 to 2 eggs.

  2. Mix well and bake until set.

  3. Serve warm.

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 + macetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,346 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  2. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  3. Egg + macetop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,587 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Sago
Swells as it soaks and thickens the pudding as it bakes.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm when baked.
Milk
Adds richness and moisture and helps the pudding set creamy.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Underbaking leaves the pudding loose and watery, while the egg proteins set as the custard heats. Baking until just set keeps it tender rather than curdled or rubbery.

Swap the mace

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Macethe original

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

“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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