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Delicious Pudding

A steamed pudding made from French rolls, vanilla chocolate, sugar, eggs, and fruit filling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Delicious Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cream together the French rolls and vanilla chocolate.

  2. In a bowl, mix the sugar and beaten eggs.

  3. Line a low mold with buttered paper.

Steam and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into the mold and steam for 30 minutes.

  2. Turn out the pudding and fill the center with fruit.

  3. Serve with chocolate 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.

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. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Vanilla + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Chocolate + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

French rolls
Soak up the liquid and give the pudding its bulk and soft body.
Vanilla chocolate
Adds rich flavor and fat for a creamy, smooth texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it into a firm, sliceable pudding when steamed.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the richness of the chocolate.

The step that matters

Steam for 30 minutes. Steaming sets the beaten eggs gently. If the heat is too high, the mixture can cook unevenly and turn spongy or pitted instead of firm and smooth.

“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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