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Boiled Macaroni Pudding— No. I

A sweet pudding made from boiled macaroni mixed with eggs and sugar, baked in a buttered mold and served with wine sauce.

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 ↓

Boiled Macaroni Pudding— No. I

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the macaroni

  1. Wash the macaroni and boil it in the milk until tender.

  2. Pour the macaroni into a basin to cool.

Make the pudding

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with the sugar and a little seasoning.

  2. Mix the cooled macaroni with the egg mixture.

  3. Butter a mold and pour in the mixture.

  4. Boil or steam for 1 hour.

  5. Turn out the pudding and serve with wine sauce.

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. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the bulk and firm body of the pudding once cooked and set.
Milk
Cooks the pasta to tenderness and provides the liquid base for a soft, creamy texture.
Eggs
Set when heated, binding the macaroni and milk into a sliceable pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the savory-leaning pasta and milk.

The step that matters

Boil or steam for 1 hour. Egg proteins set as they heat, so the pudding needs gentle, steady heat. Vigorous boiling can make the eggs curdle or leave a watery, pitted texture.

“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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