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Maccaroni Pudding

A savory pudding made with macaroni, eggs, cream, ham, white meat, cheese, and spices, steamed in a buttered mold.

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

Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Maccaroni Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the macaroni

  1. Simmer the macaroni in plenty of water with salt until tender but not broken, then strain it.

Make the pudding

  1. Beat the egg yolks and egg whites together.

  2. Mix the cream, minced white meat, minced ham, grated cheese, pepper, and salt with the macaroni.

  3. Butter a mold and pour the mixture into it.

Steam and serve

  1. Steam the mold in a pan of boiling water for 1 hour.

  2. Serve with rich gravy.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Cream + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  5. Ham + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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 set it into a firm, custard-like pudding as it heats.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the pudding tender and smooth.
Macaroni
Forms the body of the pudding, soaking up the custard around it.
Grated cheese
Adds savory flavor and a salty, rich note throughout.
Cooked ham
Adds smoky, savory meat flavor to the pudding.

The step that matters

Steam the mold for the full hour. The egg proteins need sustained, gentle heat to set. If the pudding is pulled early, the custard stays loose and may slump when unmolded.

“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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