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A Quick Pudding

A pudding made by boiling crackers and raisins in milk and water, served with a rich sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,155 recipes. Both carry decanoic acid, which smells acides aroma. The science ↓

A Quick Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Split the crackers and layer raisins between the halves.

  2. Tie the crackers in a cloth tightly.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil in a mixture of milk and water for 15 minutes.

  2. Serve with a rich 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. Raisin + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

  2. Raisin + saucetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together297 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Milk + saucetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Crackers
Soften as they soak up the liquid, forming the body of the pudding.
Raisins
Add sweetness and a chewy texture between the cracker layers.
Milk
Adds richness and moisture, softening the crackers into a tender pudding.

The step that matters

Tie the crackers in a cloth tightly. A snug tie holds the cracker layers and raisins together while the crackers soften in the liquid, so the filling stays inside rather than scattering into the pot.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sauce):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sauce. 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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