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Frozen Pudding

A frozen dessert made from pineapple, sugar, eggs, and whipped coffee cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Boil the sliced pineapple and sugar for 5 minutes.

  2. Remove from heat and stir in the beaten eggs.

  3. Let the mixture cool, then fold in the whipped coffee cream.

Freeze

  1. Pack the mixture in ice and freeze for 3 to 4 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.

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. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Sugar + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

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

  4. Pineapple + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

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

  5. Pineapple + coffeetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together66 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Thicken the warm pineapple mixture into a smooth, custard-like base as they set with gentle heat.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps keep the frozen texture softer by lowering the freezing point.
Whipped coffee cream
Adds richness and air, giving a light, creamy texture to the frozen pudding.
Sliced pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and acidity, with moisture that is cooked down into the base.

The step that matters

Stir in the beaten eggs off the heat. Eggs scramble if they meet very hot liquid directly. Removing the pan from heat before stirring them in lets them thicken the base gently and evenly.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, coffee, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, coffee, 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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