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Bellevue Pudding

A steamed pudding made with flour, milk, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, soda, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Colville, Jessie Henderson. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Bellevue Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Combine 1 cup of New Orleans pinch of salt, 2 cups sifted flour, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon cloves.

  2. Steam the mixture for three hours.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. Beat 1 egg; add 4 cups butter and 1 cup pulverized sugar (creamed together); then add 1 teaspoon vanilla; let boil until thick.

  2. Just at serving time add two tablespoonfuls boiling water.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

858Calories
28 gProtein
26 gFat
124 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
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.

By Colville, Jessie Henderson. [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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

  4. Clove + vanillatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure of the pudding as it steams and sets.
Soda
Reacts to lighten the batter so the pudding rises and stays tender.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that makes the creamed sauce smooth and flavorful.
Egg
Helps bind and thicken the sauce as it cooks.
Pulverized sugar
Sweetens the sauce and blends with butter to a creamy texture.

The step that matters

Let the sauce boil until thick. Egg and sugar sauces can curdle or stay runny if overheated or underheated, so it needs steady attention until it thickens smoothly.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, milk, cinnamon, sugar, butter, vanilla, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Clovethe original
  4. Allspicefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk, cinnamon, sugar, butter, vanilla, 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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