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Cold Cabinet Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,887 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cold Cabinet Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the cream blanc-mange or Velvet Cream according to your recipe.

  2. Before it thickens, pour a little into a cold water-rinsed mold to coat the surface.

  3. Decorate the surface with candied cherries.

  4. Loosely fill the mold with preserved fruits, macaroons, sponge cake, and sliced citron.

  5. Slowly fill the mold with the thickened blanc-mange.

  6. Place the mold on ice for several hours until firm.

  7. Turn it out onto a serving plate and serve with cream.

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 + winetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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