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My Own Frozen Pudding, and a Good One

A frozen pudding made from chocolate ice cream mixed with candied fruit and served with a light brandy or rum sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

My Own Frozen Pudding, and a Good One

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald the cream for the chocolate ice cream one hour before using.

  2. Prepare the chocolate ice cream according to your preferred method.

Assemble and freeze

  1. Mix the chopped candied fruit thoroughly into the ice cream.

  2. Transfer the mixture into a mold and pack it in the freezer.

  3. Do not freeze for too long to prevent the fruit from becoming too stiff.

Serve

  1. Serve with a light sauce flavored with brandy or rum.

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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  3. Chocolate + raisintop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together171 recipes

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

  4. Raisin + saucetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together297 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Cream + raisintop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,642 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate ice cream
Provides the creamy, sweet base that holds the candied fruit throughout the pudding.
Candied fruit
Adds chewy texture and concentrated sweetness and flavor distributed through the frozen base.

The step that matters

Freezing time. Freezing for too long makes the candied fruit overly firm and hard to bite through, as the fruit's sugar and moisture set more rigidly when very cold. Pack the mold and check it before the pudding becomes unpleasantly stiff.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, cream, sauce):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, cream, sauce. 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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