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Frozen Pudding Glacd, or Tutti-frutti

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding Glacd, or Tutti-frutti

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stem and seed the raisins. In a saucepan, combine raisins, milk, and cinnamon. Simmer for 20 minutes.

  2. In a bowl, beat the egg yolks and sugar together.

  3. Strain the raisins and cinnamon from the milk, discarding the cinnamon. Set the raisins aside.

  4. Pour the strained milk over the egg yolks and sugar, stirring well. Return the mixture to the saucepan.

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 + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Lime + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Almond + limetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raisin, milk, egg, sugar, almond, cream, cinnamon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raisin, milk, egg, sugar, almond, cream, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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