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Cornmeal Souffle

A light, baked cornmeal dish made with milk, eggs, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cornmeal Souffle

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Scald the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Stir in the cornmeal until smooth.

  3. Cook the mixture for a few minutes.

  4. Add the salt and the well-beaten egg yolks.

Fold and bake

  1. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

  2. Bake for 30 minutes in a pan of hot water.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Scalding it hydrates the cornmeal starch and gives the base a soft, moist texture.
Cornmeal
Cooked in hot milk, it swells and thickens into the base that holds the souffle.
Eggs
Yolks add richness and whites trap air, lifting the souffle as it bakes.

The step that matters

Folding in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Fold gently so the air trapped in the whites stays in the batter. Deflating the whites makes the souffle rise less and turn out dense.

“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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