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Farina Pudding

A milk-based pudding thickened with farina, enriched with butter, sugar, egg yolks, and folded egg whites, served chilled with sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Farina Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. In a pot, bring 1 quart of milk to a boil.

  2. Add salt to the boiling milk.

  3. Stir in 4 tablespoons of farina until it thickens.

  4. Add a small piece of butter and a little sugar, mixing well.

  5. Remove from heat and stir in the yolks of 4 eggs.

  6. Gently fold in the beaten whites of 4 eggs.

Chill and serve

  1. Chill and serve cold with white sugar syrup.

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. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. 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

Farina
Thickens the hot milk into a soft, set pudding body.
Egg yolks
Enrich the custard and add richness and a smooth, tender texture.
Egg whites
Folded in whipped, they add lightness and airiness to the pudding.
Butter
Adds fat for a rounder, richer mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Fold in the egg whites gently. Beaten whites hold air that gives the pudding its lightness. Vigorous stirring knocks that air out, leaving a dense result. Fold slowly so the foam stays intact.

“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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