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Ice Cream Pudding

A chilled pudding made with boiling water, sugar, cornstarch, egg whites, and pineapple marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and pineapple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,841 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Ice Cream Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Combine boiling water and sugar in a double boiler.

  2. Mix cornstarch with a little cold water until smooth, then add to the mixture.

Finish and set

  1. Remove from heat and fold in the beaten egg whites and pineapple marmalade.

  2. Pour into a mold and set aside to cool.

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. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + pineappletop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped into foam, they give the pudding a light, airy structure.
Cornstarch
Thickens the hot liquid as it gels, giving the pudding a soft, set body.
Pineapple marmalade
Adds fruit flavor, sweetness and a bright acidity.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the base and adds body to the mixture.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Fold gently after removing from heat so the whipped foam keeps its trapped air. Stirring hard or over heat deflates the whites, leaving a denser pudding.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg. 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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