Why it works: Milk and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
English Plum Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
One large quart of milk, one dozen large crackers or fourteen small ones soaked in the milk over night. In the morning add one small cup of suet chopped fine, two cups of raisins, one cup of currants, six eggs, one teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon and mace, one nutmeg, one and one-half cups of sugar, one cup of molasses. Steam five hours. This pudding will keep for weeks.
Mansfield's Pure Maple Syrup in Cans and Bottles.
One quart of milk, one cup of rice, one small cup molas- ses, one quarter of a teaspoon of salt. Bake slowly two hour? or until the rice looks red like Indian meal.
CRUMB PUDDING
Six tablespoonfuls of soft bread crumbs, one pint of sweet milk, boil milk and bread ; stir until smooth,then cool. Add yolks of three eggs and three-quarters of a cup of sugar beaten together ; beat the whites of eggs and add last. Bake about forty minutes in a moderate oven.
Sauce: One cup of sugar, butter the size of a small walnut . cream together, and mix white of egg enough to make hard sauce. Flavor with vanilla or lemon juice.
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Rice | 1 cup cooked (158g) white | 206 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Molasses | 1 tbsp (20g) | 58 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Walnut | 1 walnut half (4g) | 26 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Clove | 1 tsp ground (2g) | 7 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pudding | not in our table | 0 |
| Mace | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7,374 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Raisin + clovetop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,070 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
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Raisin + curranttop 10% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,180 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).
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Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together11,466 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,225 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the currant
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raisin, clove, sugar, molasses, milk, rice, bread):
- Vanillafits better
- Figfits better
- Applefits better
- Currantthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against raisin, clove, sugar, molasses, milk, rice, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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