Why it works: Raisin and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Quick Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Soften any kind of light cake with sweet cream or rich milk, heated and poured on hot, make a rich boiled custard and pour it over the cake and cream
THE GOOD CHEER COOK BOOK. Ill
while hot, and beat the whole together well ; flavor the same as cake, with lemon or vanilla. It can be eaten hot or cold. Use a sauce of butter and sugar beaten together until light. The pudding should be as thick as baked custard..
RICE PUDDING— No. 1. One-half cupful of rice (not cooked), one cupful of sugar, three pints of milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one cupful of raisins ; mix all together and bake in a slow oven, stirring occasionally. To be eaten hot or cold. Season with nutmeg. Mks. A. Hoffman.
RICE PUDDING— No. 2.
One cupful of rice, one quart of milk (swell the rice), then mix with milk, add two eggs, one-half cup- ful of butter, sugar, spice and raisins without rule ; bake.
RICE MERINGUE. One cupful of rice boiled tender. When cool, add the yolks of three eggs, one tablespoonful of sugar, one cup- ful of sweet cream, a little salt, the rind of one lemon grated. Bake in oven. Beat the whites of the three eggs to a froth, add one and one-half cupfuls of sugar and the juice of one lemon ; pour on top and brown.
Mrs. a. E. Comerford.
steamed bread pudding. One bowl of bread crumbs, one cupful of cold water, one of molasses, one of flour, one of raisins and citron mixed, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one tea- spoonful of soda ; steam one hour.
Mrs. V. W. Bayless,
Minneapolis, Minn.
112 THE GOOD CHEER COOK BOOK. STEAMED PUDDING.
One cupful of sugar, one cupful of flour, four eggs, small teaspoon ful of soda, two of cream of tartar. Beat eggs and sugar together. Put soda in half of flour and tartar in remainder. Will steam in half an hour.
STEAMED FLOUR PUDDING. One pint of flour, one and one-half cupfuls of sweet milk, three eggs, a little salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder ; steam three-fourths of an hour. Serve with hard sauce. Susie C
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Rice | 1 cup cooked (158g) white | 206 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Raisin + flourtop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together9,075 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together5,390 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together2,137 recipes
Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Rice + milktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7,374 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the raisin
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, sugar, milk, cinnamon, flour, egg, butter):
- Vanillafits about as well
- Raisinthe original
- Coconutfits less well
- Figfits less well
Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sugar, milk, cinnamon, flour, egg, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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