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Nantucket Corn Pudding

A baked corn pudding made with fresh corn, milk, sugar, salt, soda crackers, eggs, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Nantucket Corn Pudding

Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Nantucket Corn Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the corn

  1. Husk the corn and grate or pound it finely.

Make the pudding

  1. In a bowl, combine the grated corn, cold milk, brown sugar, salt, crushed soda crackers, and eggs.

  2. Pour the mixture into a baking dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 3 hours.

  2. Serve warm with butter.

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

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

  2. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the mixture into a firm, sliceable pudding as they cook.
Milk
Adds moisture and a rich, creamy body to the pudding.
Corn
Provides the main flavor and bulk, with natural sweetness and body.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and a mild caramel flavor, and helps keep the pudding moist.

The step that matters

Bake at a moderate heat for the full time. Eggs set as their proteins coagulate with heat. Too hot or too long can make the custard curdle, dry out, or turn rubbery, so the oven temperature and time need to be followed closely.

“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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