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Almond Cream Pudding

A chilled pudding made with gelatin, heavy cream, almonds, eggs, sugar, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Almond Cream Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the gelatine in warm water and set aside to cool.

  2. Whip the heavy cream until stiff.

  3. Chop the almonds finely.

Make the pudding

  1. Beat the eggs until light and fluffy, then mix in the sugar.

  2. Once the gelatine is cool, combine it with the egg and sugar mixture.

  3. Fold in the whipped cream, lemon juice, and chopped almonds.

Serve

  1. Serve with additional whipped 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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  4. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon 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 pudding into a firm, sliceable structure as it cools.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture when whipped and folded in.
Eggs
Add richness and body to the custard-like base.
Chopped almonds
Add nutty flavour and a bit of texture throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Fold in the whipped cream. Folding gently keeps the air whipped into the cream, so the pudding stays light. Stirring vigorously deflates the foam and makes the texture dense.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, almond, egg, sugar. 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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