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Iced Pudding a LA Charles Kemble

A chilled dessert made with cream, egg yolks, pineapple syrup, sugar, corn flour, vanilla sugar, pineapple, raisins, kirschwasser, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 911 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Iced Pudding a LA Charles Kemble

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the cream, egg yolks, pineapple syrup, sugar, corn flour, and vanilla sugar until well combined.

  2. Add the kirschwasser.

  3. Freeze the mixture until it starts to set.

Shape and freeze

  1. Fold in the chopped pineapple, Sultana raisins, and whipped cream.

  2. Mould the mixture into a desired shape and freeze until firm.

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. Pineapple + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Corn + vanillatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,943 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

Egg yolks
Add richness and help the mixture set smooth and custard-like when frozen.
Corn flour
Thickens the mixture so it holds its body as it freezes.
Double cream
Whipped, it adds air and a light, creamy texture to the frozen pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and softens the texture by lowering the freezing point.
Sultana raisins
Add chewy pockets of sweetness that contrast with the smooth base.

The step that matters

Fold in the chopped pineapple, Sultana raisins, and whipped cream. Folding keeps the whipped cream's trapped air intact. Stirring vigorously would deflate it, leaving a denser frozen pudding.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, syrup, sugar, corn, flour, vanilla):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, syrup, sugar, corn, flour, vanilla. 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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