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Plum-pudding Gla Ce

Be cautious not to let any salt get into the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Arrowroot and raisin share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Plum-pudding Gla Ce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the milk and dissolve the chocolate in it.

  2. Rub the arrowroot with a little cold milk or water and stir it in.

  3. When thickened, carefully stir in the 2 eggs mixed smooth with a few drops of cold water.

  4. Set aside to cool.

  5. Add the fruit and flavorings.

  6. Whip the cream and add the sugar to it.

  7. At the moment of freezing, add the whipped cream mixture to the chocolate.

  8. Pack into a mold and cover tightly.

  9. Set in a bucket with ice and salt until ready to serve.

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. Arrowroot + raisintop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  3. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  4. Raisin + curranttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Cream + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (arrowroot, raisin, sugar, milk, peach, cream, chocolate):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against arrowroot, raisin, sugar, milk, peach, cream, chocolate. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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