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Beehive Pudding

A steamed pudding made with sugar, flour, butter, milk, eggs, cream, macaroni, bread crumbs, sherry, marmalade, and yellow coloring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

Beehive Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Blend the butter and sugar in a saucepan over low heat.

  2. Add the flour and milk, and bring to a boil.

  3. Remove from heat.

  4. Let the mixture cool before stirring in the cream and eggs.

Prepare the macaroni and crumbs

  1. Cook the macaroni in a little milk.

  2. Cut the cooked macaroni into small pieces.

  3. Ensure the bread crumbs are lump-free.

Steam and serve

  1. Combine all ingredients and pour into a buttered mold.

  2. Steam for about 1.5 hours.

  3. Serve with a sweet sauce, either cold or hot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and set into a firm, sliceable custard when steamed.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavor and giving a tender texture.
Flour
Thickens the milk base so the pudding holds its shape.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the flour thickens and the eggs set in.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the texture of the set custard.
Macaroni
Provides body and chew as the main solid element of the pudding.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before stirring in the cream and eggs. If the base is still hot, the eggs can scramble or cook unevenly instead of blending smoothly, which leaves a grainy texture in the set pudding.

“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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