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Maple Cream Pudding

A chilled dessert made with milk, sugar, maple syrup, gelatin, cream, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Maple Cream Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Scald the milk and sugar in a saucepan.

  2. Add the maple syrup and then the gelatine dissolved in water.

  3. When the mixture begins to congeal, fold in the whipped cream.

Set and serve

  1. Pour into a mold and refrigerate until set.

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

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

  2. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sugar + maple syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  5. Milk + maple syruptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the creamy base of the pudding.
Maple syrup
Provides the main sweetness and maple flavour.
Lemon gelatine
Sets the mixture so it holds its shape when chilled.
Cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture when folded in.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped cream. Fold the cream in only once the mixture begins to congeal. If the gelatine is still fully liquid, the cream will deflate and separate, and if it has set too firmly, the cream will not blend evenly.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, maple syrup, cream. 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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