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Millet Pudding

A baked millet pudding made with millet, sugar, butter, eggs, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Millet Pudding

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 ↓

Millet Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Butter a baking dish.

Make and bake

  1. In a bowl, mix millet seed, sugar, butter, eggs, and milk until well combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into the prepared dish.

  3. Bake for 1.5 hours or until set.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Millet + milktop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  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

Millet seed
Forms the bulk of the pudding, giving it body as the mixture cooks and firms.
Eggs
Set as they heat, binding the pudding into a sliceable, custard-like texture.
Milk
Provides the liquid that the millet softens in and the eggs set within.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and contributes to browning on the surface during baking.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer, tender crumb.

The step that matters

Baking until set. Eggs continue to set as the pudding bakes, so underbaking leaves it loose in the centre, while overbaking can make it dry and grainy. Check that the centre is just firm before removing it from the oven.

Swap the millet

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Cocoafits better
  4. Milletthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, milk. 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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