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Swiss Cocoa-nut Puddings

A steamed pudding made with beef suet, bread crumbs, coconut, jam, sugar, eggs, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Swiss Cocoa-nut Puddings

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix the shredded beef suet, bread crumbs, grated coconut, jam, and powdered sugar.

  2. Beat the eggs and mix them with the milk or coconut milk.

  3. Pour the egg mixture over the initial mixture and let it soak for 1 hour.

  4. Beat the pudding mixture until well combined.

Steam and serve

  1. Thoroughly butter a mold and transfer the mixture into it.

  2. Tie the mold securely in a cloth.

  3. Plunge the mold into fast-boiling water and boil for 3.5 hours.

  4. Turn the pudding out of the mold.

  5. Sift powdered sugar over the pudding and serve.

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. 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. Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Coconut + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Beef suet
Adds richness and fat that keeps the pudding moist and tender.
Bread crumbs
Provides body and soaks up the liquid to give the pudding structure.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firmly as it cooks.
Strawberry jam
Adds sweetness, fruity flavour and some moisture to the pudding.
Grated coconut
Contributes coconut flavour and a chewy, moist texture.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the pudding and forms a fine dusting on the finished surface.

The step that matters

Boil for 3.5 hours in fast-boiling water. The mold must stay fully submerged and the water must keep boiling so the pudding cooks evenly and steadily. Low or uneven heat leaves the centre under-set or the texture heavy and soggy.

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, bread, coconut, sugar, egg, milk, butter. 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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