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Strawberry Pudding

A chilled pudding made from Swiss milk pudding powder, butter, and water, garnished with strawberry jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Strawberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Dissolve the Swiss milk in 1 pint of cold water.

  2. Mix a little of the water with the pudding powder until smooth.

  3. Bring the remaining water to a boil in a saucepan.

  4. Stir in the cold mixture quickly until thick and smooth.

  5. Add the butter and boil for 2 minutes.

Mold and serve

  1. Rinse a mold with cold water and leave it wet.

  2. Pour the pudding mixture into the mold and let it set.

  3. Turn out the pudding and garnish with strawberry jam.

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

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

  2. Strawberry + strawberry jamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Milk + strawberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,130 recipes

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

  4. Strawberry + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Milk + strawberry jamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Pudding powder
Thickens the liquid as its starch swells and sets when cooled.
Butter
Adds fat for a richer flavour and smoother mouthfeel.
Swiss milk (strawberry)
Adds strawberry flavour and sweetness along with milk solids for body.

The step that matters

Stir in the cold mixture quickly until thick and smooth. Starch granules swell and thicken only when heated. Adding the cold paste to boiling water while stirring disperses it evenly, which prevents lumps and a grainy set.

Swap the strawberry jam

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, strawberry, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, strawberry, butter. 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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