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Pudding Sauces

A chocolate sauce thickened with rice flour, sweetened with sugar and browned with a few drops of browning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chocolate and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,404 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Pudding Sauces

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a saucepan, combine the cut chocolate and water.

  2. Once dissolved, add the sugar and rice flour mixed with a little cold water.

  3. Boil the mixture together for five minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve hot or cold.

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Rice + flourtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + chocolatetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rice + chocolatetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together509 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice flour
Thickens the sauce as its starch swells and sets when heated.
Cut chocolate
Supplies the main chocolate flavour and body to the sauce.
Sugar
Sweetens the sauce and balances the bitterness of the chocolate.
Browning
Adds a darker colour to the sauce.

The step that matters

Boil for five minutes after adding the flour. Rice flour starch only thickens fully once it is heated to boiling, which swells the granules and makes the sauce smooth. Stopping early leaves the sauce thin or starchy.

“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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