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Bebbcca Pubdiko

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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Bebbcca Pubdiko

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald one quart of milk, mix one half cup corn starch with milk enough to make it pour, and stir into the hot milk, adding two tablCvSpoonfuls of sugar, and cook fifteen minutes. Take off the fire and turn into a dish, add whites three eggs beaten to a froth, beat the whole well and pour into mould with one teaspoonful vanilla. Serve with sance.

  2. COIiXXMBTAK LBMON PUDBING.

  3. Two lemons, two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, one and one half cups granulated sugar, three eggs. Grate rind of one lemon, squeeze juice and pulp of two lemons. Beat yolks of the egg with Dortion

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  6. of the sugar, then add balance of sugar and grated rind and juice. Mix cornstarch with a little water; add boiling water until thick and clear. Add the ingredients previously mixed, and stir until smooth and well mixed. Pour into pudding dish, Cool a little, set into the oven to brown for a few minutes. Beat the whites stiff, add a little powdered sugar, pour on top of pudding, and brown slightly. May be served warm or cold.

  7. LEMON POBBINaS IN CXTPS.

  8. Take three rounded tablespoonfuls butter, five even tablespoonsfuls of sugar, yolks of three eggs, and juice and grated peel of one lemon. Mix together over the fire in saucepan, beating continu- ally for five minutes till it thickens slightly. Add the whites of three eggs, beaten stiff. Continue beating off the fire for at least five minutes. Pour into small buttered and ^sugared cups, filling about half full. Set cups in pan of hot water, put in oven and bake forty five minutes.

  9. Serve with sauce made of one cup boiling milk, into which a teaspoonful of corn starch, a teaspoon- ful flour, a tablespoonful of sugar and one beaten egg is stirred. Beat the sauce two minutes, after adding cornstarch, flour and egg. Putin teaspoon- ful vanilla, and serve. These lemon puddings should be like a souffle.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

857Calories
28 gProtein
26 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
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12

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

By Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River. 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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Corn + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,943 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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

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