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Snow Pudding

A dessert made by mixing corn starch, sugar, salt, water, lemon juice, eggs, and milk, then baking and chilling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,955 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Snow Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Thoroughly mix one-fourth cupful of corn starch with one-third cupful of sugar and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt.

  2. Add cold water gradually until mixture pours easily; then add gradually to two cupfuls of boiling water.

  3. Bring to boiling point and let simmer five minutes.

  4. Add the whites of two eggs beaten until stiff and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice.

  5. Turn into a mould, chill thoroughly, remove from mold and serve with

Make the custard

  1. Scald one and three-fourths cupfuls of milk in double boiler.

  2. Mix thoroughly one-fourth cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of corn starch and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt.

  3. Beat the yolks of two eggs slightly, add one-fourth cupful of milk; then add to dry ingredients.

  4. Turn mixture into the scalded milk and cook six minutes, stirring constantly.

  5. Strain, cool and flavor with vanilla or lemon extract.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

743Calories
28 gProtein
15 gFat
124 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. See the original page.

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. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  2. Lemon + corntop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,927 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Lemon + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Eggs
Whites are beaten to add airy structure to the snow pudding; yolks thicken the custard.
Corn starch
Thickens the pudding and the custard as it heats with liquid.
Milk
Forms the base of the custard, giving body and richness.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and custard.

The step that matters

Add the whites of two eggs beaten until stiff. Beaten egg whites trap air to give the pudding its light, foamy texture. If the whites are under-beaten or deflated by stirring too vigorously, the pudding will be dense rather than snowy.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, corn, sugar, 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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