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Grape Nut Pudding

A baked pudding made with milk, Grape Nuts, egg, butter, sugar, and optional raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Grape Nut 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 custard base

  1. Scald the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Add the Grape Nuts and let the mixture cool.

  3. Stir in the beaten egg, butter, sugar, and raisins if desired.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 1.5 to 2 hours.

  3. Serve with whipped cream.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Nuts + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Milk + grapetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,682 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Milk + raisintop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the liquid base that the pudding sets from as it bakes.
Grape nuts
Soak up the milk and give the pudding its body and grainy texture.
Beaten egg
Helps the pudding set into a custard as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft, tender texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps it brown lightly at the surface.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before adding the egg. Adding beaten egg to very hot milk can scramble it instead of blending smoothly, so cooling the mixture first keeps the custard smooth and evenly set.

Swap the raisin

The recipe marks raisin as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, grape, nuts, egg, butter, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, grape, nuts, egg, butter, sugar. 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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