Name: Delmonico's Pudding
Ingredients: one quart milk; 1/2 teaspoonful salt; 3 tablespoonfuls of corn-starch; 6 tablespoonfuls; 3 eggs

Why it works: Milk and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,955 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Delmonico's Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

One quart milk with 1/2 teaspoonful salt; set this on the fire to boil; mix 3 tablespoonfuls of corn-starch with a little cold milk and stir in just before the milk boils. Boil 5 minutes. To 6 tablespoonfuls, sugar beat the yolks of 3 eggs and add any flavoring extract; pour the corn-starch, while hot, into this, then whip the whites of 3 eggs and drop it on top of pudding in form of kisses, and brown in the oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

227Calories

14 gProtein

13 gFat

13 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Salt	1 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 Margaret Brown. 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.

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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.

Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,955 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Corn + eggtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,484 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).