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Cocoanut Pudding

A baked coconut pudding made with grated coconut, butter, sugar, egg whites, and lemon juice or wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,467 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cocoanut 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. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the pudding

  1. In a bowl, combine the grated coconut, butter, and sugar.

  2. Add the egg whites and mix until well combined.

  3. Season with lemon juice or wine to taste.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake for about 30-40 minutes or until set.

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. Coconut + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Coconut + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 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

Egg whites
Bind the mixture and help it set into a firm, sliceable pudding when baked.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the pudding tender as it bakes.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps the surface brown lightly in the oven.
Grated coconut
Provides the main body, flavour and chewy texture of the pudding.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Egg whites firm up as they heat. Pulling the pudding too early leaves it wet and loose in the centre, while overbaking can make it dry and rubbery.

Swap the coconut

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Raspberryfits about as well
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, lemon. 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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