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Cheese Pudding

A baked cheese and bread crumb pudding made with milk, egg, butter, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the custard base

  1. Crumble the stale bread into fine crumbs.

  2. Pour boiling milk over the crumbs and let them soak.

  3. Beat the soaked crumbs with a fork.

  4. Mix in the grated cheese.

  5. Add pepper and salt to taste.

  6. Beat the egg and add it to the mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Transfer the mixture to a small pie dish.

  2. Melt the butter and pour it over the top.

  3. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread crumbs
Form the body of the pudding and soak up the hot milk to set a soft texture.
Milk
Softens the crumbs and provides moisture so the pudding stays tender.
Cheese
Adds rich flavour and fat, and helps the mixture firm as it cooks.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps it set when baked.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and encourages browning on the surface.

The step that matters

Beating the egg into the mixture. The egg must be fully blended into the warm crumb mixture so it sets evenly. Clumps of egg can cook unevenly and leave the pudding patchy in texture.

“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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