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Macaroni Pudding

A baked macaroni dish with cheese, meat, ham, eggs, milk, and stock, served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,426 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Macaroni Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the macaroni

  1. Break the macaroni into short pieces.

  2. Boil the macaroni in salted water for 20 minutes.

  3. Drain the macaroni.

Make the pudding

  1. Add the grated cheese, minced cold meat, chopped ham, and beaten eggs. Mix well.

  2. Add a little soup stock.

  3. Add the milk mixed with baking soda.

  4. Pour the mixture into a greased mold.

  5. Boil the mixture in the mold for 1 hour.

  6. Turn out the pudding.

Make the gravy and serve

  1. Mix leftover gravy with hot stock.

  2. Strain the gravy.

  3. Thicken the gravy.

  4. Boil the gravy for 1 minute.

  5. Serve the pudding with the gravy.

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. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  2. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Cheese + meattop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together564 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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the bulk of the pudding and gives it a firm, starchy body.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set when heated, holding the pudding together.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the custard-like pudding.
Grated cheese
Adds savory flavor and richness to the pudding.
Baking soda
Helps the pudding rise and lighten slightly as it cooks.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture in the mold for 1 hour. The eggs must set through gently and fully so the pudding holds its shape when turned out. Keeping the water at a steady simmer and the mold sealed helps the mixture cook evenly without becoming rubbery or collapsing.

“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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