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Cheese Pudding

A baked cheese pudding made with bread crumbs, butter, cheese, eggs, milk, pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese 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.

Prepare the base

  1. Boil enough milk to moisten the bread crumbs well.

  2. Pour the hot milk over the bread crumbs and add the butter.

  3. Cover and let the mixture soak.

  4. Add the cheese, pepper, coarse sea salt, and the yolks of the eggs.

Bake

  1. Whip the egg whites to stiff peaks and fold them into the mixture just before baking.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish and bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Yolks enrich the custard and whites, whipped to stiff peaks, lighten the pudding and help it set.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk and form the soft body of the pudding.
Cheese
Adds rich flavor and fat, and helps give the pudding its savory character.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender, moist texture.
Milk
Moistens the bread crumbs and forms the custard that sets in the oven.

The step that matters

Fold the whipped egg whites in just before baking. Stiff whites hold air that gives the pudding its lift. Folding gently preserves that air, and waiting until just before baking keeps it from deflating before the heat sets the mixture.

“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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