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Green Bean Pudding

A steamed green bean pudding flavored with salt, pepper, egg yolk, cream, and served with parsley sauce and boiled bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and egg work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 48 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Boil the green beans in water until tender.

  2. Blanch and pound the beans.

  3. Season with salt and pepper.

Make the pudding

  1. Add the egg yolk and cream, mixing well.

  2. Pour the mixture into a buttered basin and boil.

Serve

  1. Turn out before serving and pour parsley sauce over it.

  2. Serve with boiled bacon.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Green beans + eggtop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,786 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Green beans + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Green beans
Form the bulk of the pudding and provide its main flavour and body.
Egg yolk
Binds the pounded beans so the pudding holds its shape when turned out.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, softening the texture of the pudding.

The step that matters

Pour the mixture into a buttered basin and boil. The buttered basin lets the pudding release cleanly when turned out. The pudding must be cooked through so the egg yolk sets and holds its shape.

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, pepper, egg, cream, butter, sauce):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, pepper, egg, cream, butter, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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