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Steamed Chocolate Pudding

A steamed chocolate pudding made with eggs, flour, sugar, baking powder, milk, chocolate, and a pinch of salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and chocolate are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Steamed Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Separate the egg yolks and whites.

  2. Beat the yolks until light, gradually adding the sugar.

  3. Mix in the milk and melted chocolate.

  4. Add the flour, baking powder, and a pinch of salt; beat until smooth.

  5. Fold in the beaten egg whites.

Steam and serve

  1. Place a large teaspoon of the mixture in buttered cups.

  2. Steam for 30 minutes and serve with custard or vanilla sauce.

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. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Yolks enrich and bind the batter, while whipped whites lighten it and help it rise.
Flour
Provides the structure that holds the pudding together after steaming.
Baking powder
Releases gas during steaming, giving the pudding a light, open crumb.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps the yolks whip to a light, stable texture.
Chocolate
Adds the main flavour and richness, along with some fat and moisture.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Stirring rather than folding knocks air out of the whites, so the pudding steams up dense instead of light. Fold gently until just combined.

“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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