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Small Curd Puddings, Baked

A baked pudding made from cheese curd, butter, almonds, sugar, nutmeg, and eggs, served with wine sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,115 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Small Curd Puddings, Baked

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the curd

  1. Drain the whey from the cheese curd using a sieve and weight.

  2. Rub the drained curd through a fine sieve.

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the curd with butter, sweet almonds, bitter almonds, sugar, and grated nutmeg.

  2. Add 10 eggs, beating well while leaving out 5 egg whites.

Bake and serve

  1. Grease the moulds thickly with butter using a brush.

  2. Coat the greased moulds with bread crumbs.

  3. Fill the moulds with the mixture and bake in the oven.

  4. Once baked, turn them out and pour wine sauce over them.

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. Almond + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese curd
Forms the body of the pudding, setting into a soft, custard-like texture when baked.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set on baking, giving the pudding its structure.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, giving a tender crumb to the baked pudding.
Sweet almonds
Contribute body and a nutty flavour to the pudding base.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Walnutfits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Pecansfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, butter, sugar, nutmeg, egg, bread, wine. 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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