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Frozen Pudding

A frozen dessert made with sweet cream, egg yolks, almonds, citrus, raisins, currants, candied peel, and wine or brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a saucepan, combine sugar and water, then bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves.

  2. Remove from heat and stir in the pounded almonds, chopped citron, raisins, currants, and candied peels.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool slightly, then add the sweet cream and egg yolks, mixing well.

Freeze

  1. Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Almond + raisintop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

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

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet cream
Adds richness and fat, giving the frozen pudding a smooth, creamy texture.
Egg yolks
Emulsifiers that add richness and help the frozen mixture set smooth.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the frozen texture soft.
Blanched almonds
Provide nutty flavour and body from the finely pounded nuts.

The step that matters

Cool before adding the cream and yolks. If the syrup is still very hot, it can cook the egg yolks and cause them to scramble, leaving the base grainy instead of smooth. Letting it cool slightly first protects the custard-like texture.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, sugar, almond, raisin, orange, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Cranberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, sugar, almond, raisin, orange, lemon. 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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