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Frozen Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and strawberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Butter 4 melon-shaped pudding molds.

  2. Layer stale plum cake at the bottom of each mold.

  3. Add a layer of strawberry or raspberry jam.

  4. Repeat layering with cake and jam until molds are nearly full.

  5. Pour in ½ cup of Madeira wine or brandy.

  6. Prepare a soft custard and fill the molds.

  7. Let it stand until the cake is soft.

  8. Place the molds in ice and cover them completely.

  9. Let it stand for 6 to 8 hours.

  10. Dip the molds quickly in boiling water and turn onto a dish.

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. Plum + strawberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Butter + strawberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Plum + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together710 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Strawberry + madeira winetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + madeira winetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together637 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, strawberry, madeira wine):

  1. Applefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, strawberry, madeira wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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