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Curd Pudding

A baked pudding made from curdled milk, butter, eggs, and optional flavorings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,318 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Curd Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the curd

  1. Turn 2 quarts of milk into curd and drain off the liquid.

  2. Beat the curd with 2 oz of butter until well combined.

Make the pudding

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the yolks of 6 eggs and the whites of 3 eggs.

  2. Add the beaten eggs to the curd mixture.

  3. Incorporate grated bread or biscuit, grated lemon peel, nutmeg, and pounded peach kernels.

  4. Mix everything well together.

Bake

  1. Butter a baking dish and pour the mixture into it.

  2. Bake until the edges are crusty and the top is browned.

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. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

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

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

  4. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  5. Nutmeg + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the curd that makes up the body of the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set as it bakes, giving structure to the pudding.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender texture.
Grated bread or biscuit
Absorbs liquid and adds body to the mixture.

Swap the currant

The recipe marks currant as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, egg, lemon, nutmeg, peach, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Blackberryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, egg, lemon, nutmeg, peach, bread. 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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