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Minute Pudding

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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Minute Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. E. A. C.

  2. Put some milk over the fire, let it boil, add a little salt, and stir in sifted flour (like meal in mush), until thick enough. Let it boil two or three minutes, stirring it all the time, take from the fire, and flavor with lemon or vanilla. Dip a bowl into cold water and pour the pudding in when it is a little cool. Serve with pulver- ized sugar and rich cream.

  3. OXFORD PUDDING,

  4. MRS. PHILIP SKINNER.

  5. One-half pint of bread crumbs, one pint of milk, six eggs, two ounces of butter, a half pint of cream, a half pound of currants, and sugar and nutmeg to the taste. Beat the yolks of eggs light, add them to the bread, milk and sugar, then the cream and fruit; lastly whip the whites to a stiff froth, and stir in gradually. Serve with sauce.

  6. 138 PUDDINGS.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

897Calories
28 gProtein
32 gFat
124 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [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.

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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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 (bread, milk, butter, cream, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, butter, cream, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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