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Boiled Curd Pudding

A boiled pudding made from milk curd, eggs, cream, spices, flour, breadcrumbs, currants, and raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,746 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Boiled Curd Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain the curd from the milk through a sieve.

  2. Mix the curd with eggs, cream, orange-flower water, grated nutmeg, flour, bread crumbs, currants, and raisins.

  3. Place the mixture in a thick, well-floured cloth.

  4. Boil for 1 hour.

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. Orange + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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 help it set firm as it cooks.
Flour
Thickens the mixture and gives the pudding its body.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and add soft body to the pudding.
Cream
Adds richness and a smoother, more tender texture.
Raisins
Add sweetness, chewiness and concentrated fruit flavor.
Currants
Add sweetness, chewiness and concentrated fruit flavor.

The step that matters

Place the mixture in a thick, well-floured cloth.. Flouring the cloth stops the pudding from sticking and helps form a smooth skin. A thick cloth holds the pudding's shape while it boils, so it does not break apart or leak into the water.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, egg, cream, orange, nutmeg, flour, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, egg, cream, orange, nutmeg, flour, bread. 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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