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Cream Gelatine Pudding

A gelatin dessert made with lemon, sugar, pineapple, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Cream Gelatine Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gelatine base

  1. In a bowl, combine the gelatine and cold water; let it stand for 1 hour.

  2. Add the lemon juice, 1 cup of sugar, and boiling water to the gelatine mixture; stir until dissolved.

  3. Let the mixture cool until it thickens to a syrup‑like consistency.

Assemble and set

  1. Gently fold in the whipped cream until well combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a mold and refrigerate until set.

Make the dressing and serve

  1. For the dressing, boil the shredded pineapple with 1 cup of sugar, then let it cool.

  2. Serve the pudding with the pineapple dressing.

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

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

  2. Lemon + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sugar + pineappletop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the liquid into a firm, wobbly structure as it cools.
Heavy cream
Whipped and folded in, it adds lightness and a creamy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the tartness of the lemon and pineapple.
Shredded pineapple
Provides fruity flavour and moisture for the dressing served with the pudding.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool to a syrup-like consistency before folding in the cream. Gelatine begins to set as it cools. If it is still very hot, the cream will deflate and collapse; if it has set too far, the cream will not blend smoothly and lumps form.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, cream, pineapple):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cream, pineapple. 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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