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CURAgOA Ice Pudding

A custard-based ice pudding flavored with Curaçao, rum, and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rum and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,341 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

CURAgOA Ice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Make a custard according to recipe No. 482.

Flavor and freeze

  1. Add ¾ cup of curaçao, ⅓ cup of rum, and the juice of 1 lemon to the custard.

  2. Freeze the mixture until solid.

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. Rum + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Custard
Forms the creamy base that gives the pudding its body.
Curaçao
Adds sweetness and orange aroma.
Rum
Alcohol lowers the freezing point, so the pudding stays softer when frozen.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and balances the custard.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture until solid. Alcohol and sugar lower the freezing point, so the mixture freezes more slowly and can stay slushy. Freeze it fully and check that it is firm before serving.

“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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