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Chocolate Marshmallow Pudding

A baked pudding made with bread crumbs, milk, cocoa, egg, sugar, marshmallows, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Marshmallow Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the pudding

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in the milk.

  2. Add the cocoa powder, beaten egg, and sugar to the soaked bread crumbs.

  3. Pour the mixture into individual pudding dishes.

  4. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 40 minutes.

Top and serve

  1. Fold the marshmallows into the whipped cream.

  2. Heap the marshmallow cream on the pudding just before serving.

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.

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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.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Cocoa powder + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Cocoa powder + sugartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Soak up the milk to form the soft, set body of the pudding.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps it set as it bakes.
Cocoa powder
Gives the pudding its chocolate flavour and colour.
Whipped cream
Adds a light, airy topping that contrasts with the baked pudding.
Marshmallows
Melt slightly into the cream, adding sweetness and a soft, chewy texture.

The step that matters

Heap the marshmallow cream just before serving. Whipped cream is an unstable foam that loses volume and weeps liquid over time, so it should be added at the last moment to keep its airy texture.

“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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