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A Millet Pudding

A sweet pudding made from millet, sugar, nutmeg, milk, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Millet and nutmeg share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 33 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

A Millet Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Wash and clean the millet seed.

  2. In a bowl, mix the millet, sugar, grated nutmeg, and milk until well combined.

  3. Place the fresh butter in your baking dish.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into the dish over the butter.

  2. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until set.

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. Millet + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

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

  3. Nutmeg + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Nutmeg + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Millet + milktop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together63 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

Millet seed
Forms the body of the pudding as its starch thickens and sets during baking.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the pudding brown slightly at the surface.
Milk
Provides the liquid that the millet absorbs and cooks in, giving a creamy texture.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing moisture and a tender texture as it melts.
Nutmeg
Contributes warm, aromatic flavour to the pudding.

Swap the millet

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, nutmeg, milk, butter):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Milletthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, nutmeg, milk, butter. 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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