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Royal Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Royal 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.

  1. In a double boiler, heat the milk until just before boiling.

  2. Stir in the sago and cook until thickened, about 30 minutes, stirring frequently.

  3. Add the butter, sugar, and salt; let cool.

  4. Once cool, mix in the beaten egg yolks and wine.

  5. Pour into a buttered pudding dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

  6. Allow to cool, then spread the raspberry jam on top.

  7. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then fold in the powdered sugar.

  8. Spread the meringue over the pudding and brown quickly under the broiler before serving.

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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Milk + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

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

  3. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Raspberry + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 recipes

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

  5. Butter + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

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

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits about as well
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, sugar, egg, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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