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Another Way to Make Cheese Pudding

A simple cheese pudding made with cheese, milk, bread, and egg, baked until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Cheese Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Grate the cheese and place it in a saucepan.

  2. Add the milk and grated bread.

  3. Stir until the cheese is dissolved.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered dish.

  2. Brown it in a Dutch oven.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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

Good cheese
Provides the main flavour and, once melted, a rich, smooth body to the pudding.
New milk
Forms the liquid base that melts the cheese and gives the pudding a soft, creamy texture.
Grated bread
Absorbs the milk and thickens the mixture, giving it body and a tender crumb.
Beaten egg
Sets with heat to bind the pudding and give it a firm, custard-like structure.

The step that matters

Stir until the cheese is dissolved. Cheese proteins tighten and turn grainy or oily if overheated, so melt it gently over low heat while stirring until smooth.

“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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