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Manna Kroup Pudding

A pudding made from manna kroup, bitter almonds, milk, sugar, and eggs, baked in a buttered dish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Isabella Beeton · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,800 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Manna Kroup Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Blanch and pound the bitter almonds in a mortar.

  2. Mix the almonds with the manna kroup.

  3. Pour a pint of boiling milk over the mixture and let steep for about ¼ hour.

Bake

  1. Add sugar to taste and the well-beaten eggs; mix all well together.

  2. Put the pudding into a buttered dish and bake for ½ hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

234Calories
15 gProtein
14 gFat
13 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7

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

By Isabella Beeton. 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 + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,800 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

  3. Almond + eggtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Manna kroup
Forms the body of the pudding as it soaks up the hot milk and sets in the oven.
Milk
Supplies the liquid that softens the manna kroup and keeps the pudding moist.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set into a firm, sliceable pudding when baked.
Bitter almonds
Add a distinctive nutty, bitter aroma that flavours the pudding.

The step that matters

Mixing in the well-beaten eggs. The eggs must be fully combined into the warm, steeped mixture so they set evenly; unmixed pockets of egg can bake unevenly and leave the pudding patchy in texture.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Cocoafits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Almondthe 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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