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Noodle Pudding

A baked pudding made from noodles, milk, butter, sugar, almonds, eggs, and cream, served hot with sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Noodle Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Cook the noodles in boiling milk until thick like mush.

  2. Remove from heat and stir in butter, sugar, chopped almonds, and almond extract.

  3. Once cool, add beaten eggs and cream, mixing well.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a well-buttered mold coated with bread crumbs.

  2. Place the mold in a pan of boiling water in the oven, covering it to prevent browning.

  3. Bake for 30 minutes if the mold has a center pipe, or 45 minutes if it's a plain mold.

  4. Turn out of the mold and serve hot with sauce.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Noodles
Cooked in milk until thick, they form the starchy body of the pudding.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the pudding into a firm, sliceable custard.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, moist crumb to the pudding.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, giving a softer, silkier texture.
Milk
Cooks with the noodles to form the thick base and adds moisture.

The step that matters

Covering the mold in the water bath. A gentle water bath with a cover keeps the eggs from heating too fast. This prevents curdling, cracks and a browned surface, so the custard sets evenly.

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, sugar, egg, cream, bread):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Pecansfits about as well
  3. Cocoafits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, sugar, egg, cream, bread. 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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