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Delicious Chocolate Pudding

A chocolate pudding made with chocolate, milk, bread crumbs, eggs, butter, sugar, nutmeg, raisins, and almonds, steamed and served with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,377 recipes. Both carry alpha-terpineol, which smells lilac, floral. The science ↓

Delicious Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Boil the chocolate in the milk until dissolved.

  2. Pour the mixture over the bread crumbs and let it stand for 1 hour.

  3. Mash through a colander or sieve until smooth.

Steam and serve

  1. Add the beaten eggs, butter, sugar, nutmeg, raisins, and almonds.

  2. Steam for 1 hour.

  3. Serve with cream.

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. Nutmeg + raisintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 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
Bind the mixture and help it set into a firm, sliceable pudding when steamed.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the chocolate milk and give the pudding body and a tender crumb.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, moist texture to the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the bitterness of the chocolate.
Chocolate
Gives the pudding its flavour and deep colour.

The step that matters

Mash through a colander or sieve until smooth. Pushing the soaked bread crumbs through a sieve breaks up lumps so the pudding sets with an even, smooth texture rather than a grainy or patchy one.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, milk, bread, egg, butter, sugar, nutmeg. 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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