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Banana Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 130 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Banana Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the sponge cake into slices.

  2. In a glass dish, layer the cake and sliced bananas alternately.

  3. Make a soft custard by heating milk and sugar, then flavor with a little wine and pour over the layers.

  4. Beat the egg whites to a stiff froth and heap over the entire dish.

  5. Prepare peaches by cutting them up, leaving them in sugar for a few hours, then scalding them.

  6. Add the cooled peaches to the thick boiled custard, making it rather sweet.

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. Banana + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

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

  2. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

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

  4. Wine + peachtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Banana + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together244 recipes

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

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sugar, egg, wine, peach):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, egg, wine, peach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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