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Chocolate Pudding

A baked pudding made with bread crumbs, milk, butter, sugar, chocolate, walnuts, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. 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.

Prepare

  1. Scald the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Combine the bread crumbs, melted butter, sugar, grated chocolate, and chopped walnuts in a large bowl.

  3. Pour the scalded milk over the mixture and stir well.

Bake

  1. Let the mixture cool, then add the beaten eggs and mix until combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) until set.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Chocolate + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the pudding and help it set into a firm, sliceable custard when baked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the hot milk and give the pudding its body and soft structure.
Milk
Hydrates the bread crumbs and forms the liquid base of the custard.
Grated chocolate
Provides the chocolate flavour and deepens the color of the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and contributes to its tender texture.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before adding the eggs. Eggs added to very hot liquid can scramble instead of blending smoothly. Cooling the mixture first lets the eggs combine evenly and set into a smooth custard when baked.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Cocoafits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, butter, sugar, chocolate, 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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