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Blanche Kammerer

A gelatinous pudding made with grape nuts, raisins, and lemon gelatin, chilled and served with fruit and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Nuts and raisin work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Blanche Kammerer

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Dissolve one package Rich's Tryphosa lemon gelatin in one pint boiling water.

  2. Add one cup grape nuts, one-half pound raisins or dates cut into pieces, and as many chopped walnuts as desired, then mix together.

  3. Pour into individual or large mould.

  4. Chill.

Serve

  1. Serve with sliced fruits and whipped cream.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

100Calories
2 gProtein
3 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
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.

By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. Nuts + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Grape + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,412 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Raisin + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,742 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Grape + nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Nuts + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Grape nuts
Adds a crunchy, grainy texture that contrasts with the soft gelatin.
Lemon gelatin
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable body when chilled.
Raisins
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness throughout the pudding.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (nuts, raisin, lemon):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against nuts, raisin, lemon. 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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