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Kentucky Green-Corn Pudding

A baked pudding made from grated green corn, butter, egg yolks, milk, and a pinch of salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Kentucky Green-Corn Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix grated corn with salt, warmed butter, egg yolks, and milk.

  2. Butter a baking pan and pour the mixture into it.

Bake

  1. Bake until set in the middle.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + milktop 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

Green corn
Forms the body of the pudding and adds its sweet, fresh corn flavour.
Egg yolks
Set with gentle heat to give the pudding its firm, custard-like structure.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, keeping the pudding tender rather than dry.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth mouthfeel to the batter.

The step that matters

Bake until set in the middle. Egg yolks set as they heat, so stopping at the right point keeps the pudding creamy. Overbaking pushes the proteins too far, making the custard grainy and causing it to weep liquid.

“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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