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Cereal Pudding

A baked pudding made with cooked cereal, raisins, milk, molasses, cinnamon, and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,390 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Cereal Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Mix the cooked cereal and milk until smooth, heating if necessary.

  2. Add the molasses, raisins, cinnamon, and well-beaten egg.

  3. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for 40 minutes at 350°F (175°C).

  2. Serve hot.

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. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Cinnamon + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,928 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Raisin + molassestop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Raisin + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Binds the mixture and helps it set into a soft, custard-like pudding when baked.
Cooked cereal
Forms the body of the pudding and thickens it as it bakes.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, helping the pudding stay tender.
Molasses
Adds sweetness, color, and a deep, rich flavor.
Raisins
Add chewy texture and pockets of sweetness throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Beat the egg well before adding it. A well-beaten egg blends evenly into the warm mixture, so it sets smoothly rather than leaving streaks or uneven pockets of cooked egg.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, cinnamon, molasses, egg):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Raisinthe original
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Applefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cinnamon, molasses, 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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