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Iced'puddings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 218 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Iced'puddings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In an enamelled pan, combine 12 ounces of sugar with the milk or cream and strain to remove any solids.

  2. Make a rich custard by heating the mixture and adding the dissolved gelatine off the heat; let it cool.

  3. While freezing, add 1 breakfast cup of whipped cream to the mixture.

  4. For the fruit, boil the maraschino syrup and add the diced preserved pears, apricots, greengages, and dried cherries; let cool.

  5. Set the freezer in ice and pour the whipped custard into it, adding a liqueur glass of maraschino.

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. Pear + apricottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Milk + apricottop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

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

  5. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the pear

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, milk, cream, egg, syrup, apricot):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Strawberryfits about as well
  4. Pearthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, cream, egg, syrup, apricot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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