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Boiued Baisix Pudding

A boiled pudding made with sweet milk, eggs, and raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,155 recipes. Both carry decanoic acid, which smells acides aroma. The science ↓

Boiued Baisix Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Take one pint of sweet milk, five eggs, and one teacup of seeded raisins.

  2. Whisk together until a stiff batter forms.

Boil

  1. Put the batter in a sack and drop it into boiling water.

  2. Boil for one hour and a half.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

289Calories
15 gProtein
14 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62

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

By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the. 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. Milk + raisintop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

  2. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + raisintop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,556 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

Eggs
Set the batter and bind it into a firm, sliceable pudding.
Sweet milk
Adds liquid that hydrates the batter and keeps the pudding tender.
Seeded raisins
Add sweetness and chewy pockets of fruit throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Keep the water boiling for the full time. Steady boiling holds the water at a constant high temperature, which cooks the egg batter evenly through. If the water drops well below boiling, the centre may stay underset and the pudding heavy.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Lemonfits about as well
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, 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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