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Grape Nut Pudding

A steamed pudding made with grape nuts, raisins, sweet milk, eggs, pecans, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,390 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Grape Nut Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine grape nuts, brown sugar, raisins, sweet milk, and beaten eggs.

  2. Add pecans and spices, mixing well.

  3. Pour the mixture into a greased pudding mold.

Steam and serve

  1. Steam for 1 hour.

  2. Serve warm with pudding sauce.

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.

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. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Pecans + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Grape + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,164 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Nuts + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together121 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help the pudding set as it steams.
Grape nuts
Provide the bulk and body that holds the pudding together.
Raisins
Add sweetness and moisture to the pudding.
Sweet milk
Moistens the grape nuts and gives the pudding a soft, custard-like texture.
Pecans
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavor.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (nuts, sugar, raisin, milk, egg, pecans, cinnamon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against nuts, sugar, raisin, milk, egg, pecans, cinnamon. 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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