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Welch Cheese Pudding

A cheese pudding made with grated Cheshire cheese, egg, old ale, bread crumbs, and butter, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Welch Cheese Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Melt the grated Cheshire cheese with the egg and old ale.

  2. Mix in the bread crumbs and bits of butter.

Brown and serve

  1. Transfer to a salamander or broiler and cook until golden.

  2. Serve warm.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Cheshire cheese
Melts into a rich, savory base that gives the pudding its main flavour and body.
Egg
Binds the mixture and sets when heated, giving it a firmer, custard-like texture.
Old ale
Adds liquid and a malty, slightly bitter flavour that complements the cheese.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the melted liquid and thicken the mixture, helping it hold together.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and smoothness and helps the top brown.

The step that matters

Cook under the salamander or broiler until golden. Cheese and bread crumbs brown quickly under intense direct heat, so the top can scorch before the centre is hot. Watch closely and stop once it is golden.

“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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