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Peanut Flour Pudding

A warm pudding made from peanut flour, milk, egg, vanilla, salt, and sugar or corn syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Peanut Flour Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. In a double boiler, combine peanut flour, vanilla, milk, salt, egg, and sugar or corn syrup.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce heat and cook for 20 to 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Serve

  1. Serve warm with custard, fruit, or chocolate sauce.

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. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peanut + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,176 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Flour + vanillatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Peanut + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Peanut flour
Provides the main peanut flavor and thickens the pudding as it cooks.
Egg
Helps set and enrich the pudding as it cooks.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that thickens into a creamy texture.
Sugar or corn syrup
Adds sweetness and a softer, smoother texture to the pudding.

The step that matters

Cooking over gentle heat while stirring. Egg proteins can scramble if the mixture gets too hot, so the pudding should cook gently and be stirred occasionally. Stirring also keeps the starch and flour from settling and scorching on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, vanilla, milk, egg, sugar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, vanilla, milk, egg, sugar. 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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