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Boiled Indian Pudding

A boiled pudding made from Indian meal, water, salt, molasses, and optional stewed apple, served with roast beef.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Molasses and apple work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 970 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Boiled Indian Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald the Indian meal with boiling water in a large bowl.

  2. Add salt and molasses, and mix well.

Boil and serve

  1. Tie the mixture in a cloth, allowing it to swell by one third.

  2. Boil the tied mixture for three hours.

  3. Serve with roast beef as a vegetable, optionally adding stewed apple for flavor.

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. Molasses + appletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together970 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Indian meal
Forms the body of the pudding, setting into a firm, sliceable mass as it cooks.
Molasses
Adds sweetness and deep flavor, and darkens the pudding as it cooks.

The step that matters

Tying the mixture in a cloth. The cloth must be loose enough for the meal mixture to swell by about one third; if tied too tightly, the pudding can be cramped or burst during boiling.

“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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