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Grape Nut Pudding

A baked pudding made with milk, grape nuts, raisins, sugar, and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Friday club, Yarmouth, Mass. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Grape Nut Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding base

  1. Scald one quart milk.

  2. Add one cup grape nuts and let stand until cold.

Bake and serve

  1. Add one beaten egg, a small piece of butter, one cup sugar, and one cup raisins (if liked).

  2. Bake for one and a half or two hours.

  3. Serve with whipped cream.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

364Calories
16 gProtein
16 gFat
42 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26

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

By Friday club, Yarmouth, Mass. [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. Nuts + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Milk + grapetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,682 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  4. Milk + raisintop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

  5. Milk + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together982 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the liquid base that the custard sets in as it bakes.
Grape nuts
Soak up the milk as it stands, giving the pudding body and a firm, grainy texture.
Beaten egg
Sets during baking, binding the pudding so it holds together when served.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the pudding brown lightly on top.
Raisins
Add pockets of chewy sweetness that soften slightly in the baked custard.

The step that matters

Let the grape nuts stand until cold. The cereal needs time to soak up the hot milk and swell. Adding the egg while the mixture is still hot can scramble it, so cooling first keeps the custard smooth.

Swap the grape

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, nuts, sugar, raisin, 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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