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Another Bean Pudding

A pudding made from blanched beans, soaked roll, butter, salt, pepper, and egg yolks, boiled or baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Another Bean Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the blanched beans until tender.

  2. Pound the beans in a mortar with the soaked roll.

  3. Add the butter, salt, pepper, and mix well with the beaten egg yolks.

Cook and bake

  1. Boil in a basin.

  2. Bake in a pudding dish lined with puff pastry.

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. Beans + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Beans + milktop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,266 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Milk + eggtop 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

Blanched beans
Form the bulk of the pudding, giving it body and a soft, tender texture.
Soaked roll
Adds starch and moisture that helps bind the mixture into a soft pudding.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, contributing a smooth, tender mouthfeel.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and set during cooking, giving a custard-like firmness.

The step that matters

Mixing in the egg yolks. Yolks should be beaten into a smooth, warm mixture so they blend evenly. Adding them to a very hot mixture can scramble them, leaving lumps and an uneven set.

Swap the beans

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Cocoafits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Beansthe original

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