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Macaroni Pudding to Be Made of Cooked Meat

A baked macaroni pudding made with minced ham, minced chicken, eggs, butter, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,497 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Macaroni Pudding to Be Made of Cooked Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the ham and chicken finely.

  2. Boil the macaroni in broth until tender.

Make and cook the pudding

  1. In a bowl, mix the minced meat, boiled macaroni, beaten eggs, butter, cayenne pepper, and salt thoroughly.

  2. Transfer the mixture into a mold or basin.

  3. Boil the mold for two hours.

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.

Explore the science

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. Ham + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

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

  3. Ham + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  5. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Ham
Adds savoury meat flavour and body to the pudding.
Chicken
Adds savoury meat flavour and body to the pudding.
Macaroni
Provides starchy bulk that gives the pudding a soft, sliceable texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set during boiling to hold it together.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer, moister texture.

The step that matters

Boil the mold for two hours. The mold must be sealed or covered so it cooks by steam and simmering water rather than drying out. Keeping the water at a steady simmer lets the eggs set evenly through the centre without curdling or leaving the pudding watery.

“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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