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Cornstarch Pudding

A milk-based pudding thickened with cornstarch and eggs, optionally flavored with chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Cornstarch Pudding

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 ↓

Cornstarch Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. In a double boiler, bring the milk to a boil.

  2. Add sugar, salt, and butter to the boiling milk.

  3. Mix cornstarch with a little reserved milk and add to the mixture as it thickens.

  4. Stir in the beaten yolks of the eggs.

  5. For chocolate cornstarch pudding, add grated chocolate to the mixture.

Set and serve

  1. Pour into molds to cool, then turn out onto a plate.

  2. Serve with beaten egg whites mixed with sugar or 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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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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 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

Cornstarch
Thickens the milk into a smooth, sliceable pudding as it heats.
Egg yolks
Enrich the pudding and add richness and body as it sets.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the cornstarch thickens.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the flavor.

The step that matters

Adding the cornstarch mixture. Cornstarch must be mixed with cold or reserved liquid first so it does not clump, then added while the milk is hot so its starch granules swell and thicken the pudding evenly.

“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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