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Light Flour Pudding

A simple pudding made by boiling milk and adding flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Light Flour Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 1 cup of milk in a saucepan.

  2. Mix 1 tablespoon of fine flour smoothly with the hot milk.

  3. Let the mixture stand until cold, stirring occasionally.

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. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Fine flour
Thickens the milk into a smooth, set pudding as its starch absorbs liquid.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the flour thickens into a pudding.

The step that matters

Mixing the flour smoothly with the hot milk. Flour clumps when it meets hot liquid unless it is first blended smoothly, and lumps stay in the finished pudding. Starch granules disperse evenly when the flour is combined carefully into the liquid.

“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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