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Corn and Cheese Pudding

A baked pudding of corn, cheese, eggs, and milk, cooked with butter and green pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Corn and Cheese Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the sauce

  1. Melt the butter in a pan and cook the green pepper until soft.

  2. In a separate pot, make a sauce by combining the flour, milk, and cheese over low heat.

  3. Add the chopped corn, egg yolks, and salt to the sauce, mixing well.

Bake

  1. In a clean bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then gently fold them into the mixture.

  2. Pour the mixture into a buttered baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 30 minutes.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  4. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Pepper + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg whites whipped to stiff peaks give the pudding its light, airy lift and soft set.
All-purpose flour
Flour thickens the milk and cheese into a smooth sauce that holds the pudding together.
Milk
Milk forms the liquid base of the sauce, adding moisture and a creamy texture.
Cheese
Melted cheese adds richness, savory flavor, and fat to the sauce.
Chopped corn
Corn adds sweetness and moisture, and a tender bite to the pudding.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Egg whites hold air only when beaten to stiff peaks. Folding gently keeps that air in, so the pudding rises and stays light rather than deflating into a dense custard.

“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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