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Macaroni Pudding

A baked macaroni pudding made with water, milk, sugar, eggs, and optional flavorings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Macaroni Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the macaroni

  1. Break macaroni into lengths and boil in water for 15 minutes.

  2. Drain and boil again with milk and sugar until tender but unbroken.

Assemble and bake

  1. When cool, add beaten eggs and flavor to taste.

  2. Put the mixture into a buttered dish and bake until brown.

  3. For a superior pudding, add extra eggs and stir in noyau or brandy.

  4. Optionally, place orange marmalade or apricot jam in the dish under the macaroni.

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

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

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  5. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the bulk of the pudding, giving it body once cooked tender.
Milk
Cooks with the macaroni to form a soft, creamy base.
Eggs
Beaten in to set the custard as the pudding bakes, giving structure.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and adds to its browning in the oven.

The step that matters

Bake until brown. Baking sets the egg custard while the sugar and milk proteins brown. Stopping too early leaves it loose; baking too long can dry it out and toughen the eggs.

“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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