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Nesselrode Pudding

A frozen custard pudding with candied chestnuts, served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 643 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Nesselrode Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Make a rich custard similar to Delmonico Ice-Cream.

Freeze and add chestnuts

  1. When the custard is more than half-frozen, add ½ pound of diced marrons glaces.

  2. Remove the paddle from the freezer and use a long-handled spoon to push the marrons into the center of the custard.

  3. Replace the top of the freezer and turn it a dozen times to mix.

Pack and serve

  1. Pack down with fine ice and rock salt.

  2. Let it sit for at least two hours.

  3. Turn out the frozen pudding and serve with whipped cream around the base.

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. Cream + chestnuttop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Custard
Forms the frozen base, giving the pudding its rich, creamy texture.
Marrons glaces
Adds sweetness and a chewy bite against the smooth frozen custard.
Whipped cream
Adds a light, cool fat layer that contrasts with the dense frozen custard.

The step that matters

Pushing the marrons into the center of the custard. If the custard is too frozen, the chestnut pieces will not sink in evenly and may stay on the surface. Keeping the custard only partly frozen lets the pieces be distributed through it before it sets fully.

“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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