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Macaroni Pudding

A savory pudding of macaroni, milk, butter, forcemeat, fricassee, optional mushrooms, served with white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Macaroni Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the macaroni

  1. Boil the macaroni in water until tender.

  2. Drain the macaroni and boil it in milk to make it white.

Build the mold

  1. Butter a mold generously.

  2. Wind the cooked macaroni inside the mold.

  3. Prepare a savory forcemeat and place it around the macaroni.

  4. Add the fricassee on top of the forcemeat.

Cook and serve

  1. Set the mold in a stewpan and cook until done.

  2. Turn the mold out onto a plate and pour a good white sauce over it.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Milk + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Milk + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Macaroni
Forms the structure of the pudding, holding its shape when turned out of the mold.
Milk
Cooked with the macaroni to add moisture and richness, and to whiten the pasta.
Butter
Greases the mold so the pudding releases cleanly, and adds richness.
Savoury forcemeat
Binds around the macaroni and adds a savoury, moist filling layer.

The step that matters

Turn the mold out onto a plate. Macaroni set in a mold will stick if the mold is not generously buttered beforehand. Turning it out gently while hot helps the pudding keep its shape and hold together.

“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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