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Cheesecake Pudding, Cocoa-nut Flavour

A custard-like pudding made from curd, butter, currants, coconut, breadcrumbs, orange flower water, brandy, and eggs, boiled in a mould.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Cheesecake Pudding, Cocoa-nut Flavour

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Drain the fresh curd and rub it through a sieve.

  2. Mix the curd with butter, currants, grated coconut, bread-crumbs, orange-flower water, and brandy.

  3. Beat in the eggs until well combined.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a mould.

  2. Boil for 1.5 hours.

  3. Serve with punch sauce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Currant + brandytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Cocoa + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Cocoa + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh curd
Forms the creamy, cheese-like body of the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it firm as it cooks.
Butter
Adds richness and a moist, tender texture.
Bread-crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the pudding body and structure.
Grated coconut
Adds sweetness, chew and a distinct tropical flavour.

The step that matters

Pour the mixture into a mould.. The egg-enriched mixture sets as it heats, so it must be fully sealed in the mould and cooked through. Overfilling or a loose seal lets water in or the mixture spill, leaving a watery or uneven pudding.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, currant, cocoa, bread, brandy, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, currant, cocoa, bread, brandy, 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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