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Indian Huckleberry Pudding

A pudding made with boiling milk, water, Indian meal, salt, suet or eggs, baking soda, molasses, and huckleberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Indian Huckleberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a large pot, combine boiling milk and water.

  2. Stir in enough Indian meal to create a stiff batter.

Add the flavourings and boil

  1. Add coarse sea salt, chopped suet (or eggs), molasses, and huckleberries.

  2. Place the mixture in a bag and boil for 1.5 hours, leaving room for expansion.

  3. Serve with a sweet liquid sauce.

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 + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  2. Milk + molassestop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Egg + molassestop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,879 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Indian meal
Forms the stiff batter that gives the pudding its body and structure.
Suet
Adds fat, which gives the pudding richness and a moist, tender texture.
Molasses
Adds sweetness and a dark, caramel-like flavour.
Huckleberries
Add fruity flavour and colour, and their juices moisten the pudding as it cooks.

The step that matters

Leaving room in the bag for expansion. The batter swells and gives off steam while boiling. If the bag is packed tightly it can burst or the pudding can turn dense and misshapen, so space must be left.

“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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