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Cheese Pudding

A baked cheese pudding made with milk, butter, bread crumbs, eggs, and grated cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the custard base

  1. Dissolve the butter in the milk.

  2. Pour the milk mixture over the bread crumbs and let it soak.

Bake and serve

  1. Add the beaten eggs and grated cheese to the mixture.

  2. Pour the mixture into a well-buttered mold.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until set.

  4. Serve hot.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard into a firm, sliceable pudding as they cook.
Milk
Provides the liquid that soaks the bread and forms the creamy custard base.
Cheese
Adds rich flavor and fat, and helps the pudding brown lightly as it bakes.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the milk to give the pudding body and a tender crumb.

The step that matters

Baking until just set. Eggs thicken as their proteins coagulate with heat. Baking past that point makes the pudding grainy, rubbery and watery as it squeezes out liquid, so check for a firm centre rather than waiting for a dry top.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, bread, egg, cheese):

  1. Pecansfits about as well
  2. Peasfits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Lima beansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, bread, egg, cheese. 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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