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Frozen Pudding

A chilled dessert made by mixing fruit, spices, and sherry with vanilla ice cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Chop the crystallized fruits, raisins, and citron finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped fruits, raisins, citron, sherry, lemon juice, and lemon peel.

  3. Season the mixture with mace, cinnamon, and nutmeg to taste.

  4. Stir in the sugar until dissolved.

Cook and freeze

  1. Cook the mixture in a covered jar or pail set in hot water for 2 hours.

  2. Allow to cool, then beat the mixture into the vanilla ice cream.

  3. Freeze until firm.

  4. Serve with whipped cream for added deliciousness.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Vanilla ice cream
Provides the frozen creamy base that holds the fruit mixture.
Crystallized fruits
Adds chewy texture and concentrated sweetness to the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit mixture and helps it dissolve into a syrup.
Pale sherry
Adds acidity and aroma to the fruit mixture.
Seeded raisins
Adds chewy texture and concentrated sweetness.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon, sherry, sugar):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon, sherry, sugar. 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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