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Green Corn Pudding

A baked pudding made from green corn, eggs, sugar, butter, cream, and crushed crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Green Corn Pudding

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Green Corn Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the corn

  1. Remove the kernels from the corn ears using a sharp knife.

Mix and bake

  1. In a bowl, mix the corn pulp with the beaten eggs, sugar, butter, salt, and sweet cream.

  2. Add the grated crackers and mix well.

  3. Pour the mixture into a pudding dish or custard cups.

  4. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 2 to 3 hours.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 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 custard-like pudding when baked.
Sweet corn
Provides the main body, natural sweetness and tender texture of the pudding.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the custard soft and smooth.
Crackers
Absorb liquid and add body, helping the pudding hold together.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the custard brown lightly at the edges.

The step that matters

Baking time. Eggs set gradually as they heat, so baking long at a moderate oven temperature gives a firm, smooth custard. Too high a heat can curdle or toughen the eggs, leaving the pudding watery or grainy.

“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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