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English Plum Pudding

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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

  1. 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.

  2. Mansfield's Pure Maple Syrup in Cans and Bottles.

  3. 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.

  4. CRUMB PUDDING

  5. 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.

  6. 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)

1222Calories
34 gProtein
31 gFat
205 gCarbs

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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Puddingnot in our table0
Macenot 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.

By Mansfield, W. H., & co., Putnam, Conn., pub. [from old catalog]. 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 + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Raisin + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,070 recipes

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

  3. Raisin + curranttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Sugar + molassestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked 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):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. 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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