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Ice Corn Starch Pudding

A chilled pudding made from milk, eggs, corn starch, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,955 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Ice Corn Starch Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the cream from the milk and set it aside in a cool place.

  2. Mix the corn starch with a little cold skimmed milk in a bowl.

  3. Beat the eggs and add them to the corn starch mixture.

Make the pudding

  1. In a thick saucepan, heat the skimmed milk until it boils.

  2. Quickly mix the boiling milk with the corn starch and egg mixture, stirring smoothly.

  3. Allow it to boil up once, then pour into a wet mold or small dishes.

  4. Set aside in a cool place to firm up.

Serve

  1. Serve with the reserved cream and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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. Milk + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

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

  3. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  4. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Corn + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,168 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Corn starch
Thickens the milk into a smooth, sliceable pudding as it cooks and sets.
Eggs
Add richness and help set the pudding, adding body to the custard.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the starch thickens into the pudding.

The step that matters

Quickly mix the boiling milk with the corn starch and egg mixture, stirring smoothly.. Starch clumps if it meets hot liquid without constant stirring. Adding the boiling milk quickly and stirring smoothly keeps the mixture even so it thickens evenly.

“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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