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Chocolate Pudding

A baked chocolate bread pudding topped with meringue, served cold with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the pudding base

  1. Scald the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Add the bread crumbs and grated chocolate to the milk.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in the sugar and beaten egg yolks.

  4. Pour the mixture into a pudding dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 15 minutes.

Top and serve

  1. Make a meringue by beating the egg whites and adding 3 tablespoons of sugar.

  2. Spread the meringue over the pudding and brown it in the oven.

  3. Serve cold with cream.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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

Bread crumbs
Absorb the hot milk and set into the body of the pudding.
Egg yolks
Thicken the custard and enrich it as it sets.
Egg whites
Whip into a meringue that forms a light, browned topping.
Milk
Forms the liquid that softens the crumbs and sets into custard.
Grated chocolate
Provides the chocolate flavour and dark color throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Spread the meringue over the pudding and brown it in the oven. Egg white meringue can weep or stay pale if underbaked or if sugar is not fully dissolved. Spreading it fully to the edges helps it seal and brown evenly.

“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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