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Curd Puddings

A milk curd pudding made with curd, bread crumbs, butter, nutmeg, cream, and sugar, served with pudding sauce and wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Curd Puddings

Ingredients

Directions

Make the curd

  1. Curdle the milk and cut the curd into strips to separate it from the whey.

  2. Remove the curd with a skimmer and press it through a sieve.

Mix and fill

  1. Mix in bread crumbs, butter, grated nutmeg, salt, cream, and sugar.

  2. Butter small cups and fill them two-thirds full with the mixture.

Serve

  1. Serve with pudding sauce and wine.

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. Bread + buttertop 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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Its curd forms the body of the pudding once separated from the whey.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and add body, giving the pudding a softer, more set texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender mouthfeel.
Cream
Adds fat and moisture for a richer, silkier texture.
Nutmeg
Contributes warm aroma that flavours the pudding.

Swap the nutmeg

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

  1. Cinnamonfits about as well
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Celeryfits less well
  4. Gingerfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, bread, butter, cream, sugar. 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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