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Delicious Chocolate Pudding

A chocolate pudding made with bread crumbs, raisins, almonds, and eggs, steamed and served with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,377 recipes. Both carry alpha-terpineol, which smells lilac, floral. The science ↓

Delicious Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Boil the chocolate in the milk until dissolved.

  2. Pour the chocolate mixture over the bread crumbs.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 1 hour.

  4. Mash the mixture through a colander or sieve until smooth.

Finish and steam

  1. Add the beaten eggs, butter, sugar, nutmeg, raisins, and almonds.

  2. Steam the mixture for 1 hour.

  3. Serve with cream.

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. Nutmeg + raisintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

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

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

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

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set into a firm, sliceable pudding as it cooks.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the chocolate milk and provide the body of the pudding.
Butter
Adds fat for a richer, softer texture and mouthfeel.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the bitterness of the chocolate.
Milk
Provides liquid that hydrates the bread and dissolves the chocolate.

The step that matters

Mash the mixture through a colander or sieve until smooth. Lumps of soaked bread left in the mixture won't break down during steaming, leaving an uneven texture. Pressing it smooth gives an even, custard-like pudding.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, milk, bread, egg, butter, sugar, nutmeg. 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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