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Another Macaroni and Cheese Pudding

A baked macaroni and cheese pudding made with eggs, mustard, ketchup, and topped with grated cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,805 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Another Macaroni and Cheese Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the macaroni in water for 10 minutes, then strain it.

Make the pudding

  1. Beat the eggs and mix them with the macaroni, white pepper, salt, mustard, and ketchup.

  2. Combine all ingredients and pour into a baking dish.

Bake

  1. Grate cheese thickly over the top and bake until browned.

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. Mustard + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Mustard + ketchuptop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together331 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Egg + white peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  4. White pepper + mustardtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together618 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Egg + cheesetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the bulk of the dish, giving it body and a starchy structure once set.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set on baking, giving the pudding its custard-like structure.
Cheese
Melts and browns on top, adding savoury flavour and a golden crust.

The step that matters

Grate cheese thickly over the top and bake until browned. Cheese grated thickly melts without fully drying out, and browning depends on the surface reaching a high enough temperature. Baking too long can dry the custard underneath.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, mustard, ketchup, cheese):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, mustard, ketchup, cheese. 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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