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Rich Macaroni Pudding

A baked macaroni pudding flavored with cinnamon, bitter almonds, and orange marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and almond 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 ↓

Rich Macaroni Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding base

  1. Simmer macaroni in milk with cinnamon and almonds for 20 minutes.

  2. Remove the cinnamon and almonds, then pour the mixture into a bowl.

  3. Stir in powdered sugar, butter, and cream, and beat well.

  4. Add the beaten eggs and mix until combined.

Bake and serve

  1. Spread a layer of orange marmalade in a buttered mold.

  2. Pour the pudding mixture into the mold.

  3. Bake for 1 hour.

  4. Turn out the pudding.

  5. Sift sugar over it and serve.

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. Cinnamon + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cinnamon + orangetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

  5. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 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

Macaroni
Forms the body of the pudding, giving it bulk and a soft, set structure.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set on baking, giving the pudding its firm structure.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender texture and flavour.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, producing a smoother, softer custard-like texture.
Milk
Cooks with the macaroni to soften it and forms the liquid base of the pudding.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the mixture for a smooth texture.

The step that matters

Add the beaten eggs and mix until combined. Eggs set when heated, so the mixture must be evenly combined before baking to avoid pockets of unset egg and an uneven texture.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cinnamon, almond, sugar, butter, cream, egg. 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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