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Cheese Pudding

A baked cheese pudding made with bread crumbs, milk, eggs, cream cheese, butter, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the batter

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in the milk.

  2. Add the egg yolks, melted butter, grated cream cheese, salt, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, and paprika.

  3. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a pudding dish or individual dishes.

  2. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for about 30 minutes, until puffed and brown.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Milk + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Soaked in milk, they absorb liquid and give the pudding a soft, tender body.
Egg yolks
Add richness and, when baked, help set the custard into a creamy structure.
Egg whites
Beaten stiff and folded in, they trap air that lifts the pudding as it bakes.
Cream cheese
Adds richness and a mellow cheese flavour while melting into the custard.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that softens the crumbs and sets into the custard.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Stirring hard knocks out the air trapped in the stiff whites, so the pudding bakes flatter and denser instead of light and puffed.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, egg, butter, cream cheese, sauce):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, egg, butter, cream cheese, sauce. 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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