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Frozen Pudding

A chilled dessert made with candied cherries, pineapple, sugar, rum, eggs, milk, cream, and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and rum work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 451 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Chop the candied cherries and pineapple finely and soak them overnight in the rum.

Make the custard

  1. In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, salt, and beaten eggs.

  2. Pour the scalding hot milk over the mixture and cook in a double boiler until it begins to thicken.

  3. Remove from heat and let it cool.

Freeze and ripen

  1. Once cooled, add the cream and pour the mixture into a freezer.

  2. When it is partly frozen, add the soaked fruit and finish freezing.

  3. Let it stand for at least an hour to ripen.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pineapple + rumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Rum + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together967 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Pineapple + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Sugar + rumtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,908 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Thicken the custard as they set with heat, giving the pudding body.
Cream
Adds richness and fat, giving a smoother, creamier frozen texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and lowers the freezing point, keeping it softer when frozen.
Candied cherries
Add chewy texture and concentrated fruit sweetness throughout the pudding.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the custard that thickens with the eggs.

The step that matters

Cook the custard until it just begins to thicken. Eggs set with heat, so undercooking leaves the custard thin, while overheating can curdle it. Stopping at the first thickening keeps it smooth before cooling and freezing.

Swap the pineapple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Bananafits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, rum, egg, flour, milk, cream. 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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