Why it works: Cheddar cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,436 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Cheese Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Make the pudding
Melt the cheese and butter in a saucepan over low heat.
Remove from heat and stir in the beaten eggs.
Pour the mixture into a shallow baking dish.
Brown and serve
Brown under a broiler for about 10 minutes.
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.
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Cheddar cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,436 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Cheddar cheese + eggtop 25% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,287 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Cheddar cheese
- Melts into the base, providing rich flavour and a creamy, savoury body.
- Butter
- Adds fat that keeps the melted mixture smooth and rich in texture.
- Eggs
- Set when heated, giving the pudding structure and a custard-like body.
The step that matters
Stir the eggs in off the heat. Eggs thicken and can scramble when exposed to high heat. Removing the pan from the heat before adding the beaten eggs lets them blend smoothly and set gently into a creamy 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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