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Orange Indian Pudding

A pudding made with milk, molasses, salt, Indian meal, and orange peel, baked for four and a half hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Mary Ronald · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and molasses are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,243 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Orange Indian Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Put four heaping tablespoonfuls of Indian meal in a bowl, and mix in half a pint of molasses and a teaspoonful of salt.

  2. Boil three pints of milk; pour it scalding hot on the meal, stirring carefully till perfectly smooth and free from lumps.

  3. Butter a deep pudding-dish.

  4. Cover the bottom thickly with fragments of dried orange-peel.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into the dish.

  2. Gently pour a tumblerful of cold milk over the top.

  3. Bake four hours and a half in a hot oven.

Serve

  1. Eat with thick cream.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

207Calories
8 gProtein
8 gFat
27 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Molasses1 tbsp (20g)58
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Mary Ronald. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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 + molassestop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,243 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
Hot milk cooks the meal into a thick, smooth, pudding-like base.
Indian meal
Cornmeal thickens as it cooks in hot liquid, giving the pudding its body.
Molasses
Adds sweetness, dark color and a deep, rich flavor.
Dried orange peel (in the method)
Adds aromatic citrus flavor throughout the pudding as it bakes.

The step that matters

Pouring the scalding milk onto the meal while stirring. Cornmeal starch must be evenly dispersed in hot liquid before it thickens. Pouring the hot milk in while stirring carefully keeps the starch from clumping into lumps that would not smooth out later.

“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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