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Chocolate Cornstarch Pudding

A chocolate pudding thickened with cornstarch, milk, eggs, and sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,287 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Chocolate Cornstarch Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix cornstarch with a little cold milk.

  2. Scald the remaining milk.

  3. Beat the eggs and add sugar.

  4. Pour the scalded milk over the egg mixture.

  5. Melt the chocolate.

  6. Add hot water and sugar to the melted chocolate.

  7. Stir the mixture until smooth.

Make and set the pudding

  1. Combine the chocolate mixture with the milk mixture.

  2. Cook for 10 minutes.

  3. Pour the pudding into a mold.

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. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

Sugar and vanilla 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

Cornstarch
Thickens the milk mixture into a smooth, sliceable pudding as it cooks.
Eggs
Add richness and help set the pudding into a firmer texture.
Chocolate
Provides the main flavor and color of the pudding.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the starch thickens into pudding.

The step that matters

Mix cornstarch with cold milk first. Cornstarch clumps if added directly to hot liquid. Dissolving it in a little cold milk first lets the granules disperse evenly so the pudding thickens smoothly.

“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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