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Iced Pudding a LA Charles Kemble

A frozen dessert made with cream, egg yolks, pineapple syrup, sugar, corn flour, vanilla sugar, kirschwasser, pineapple, raisins, 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 base

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

  2. Stir in the kirschwasser and freeze the mixture until firm.

Finish and set

  1. Once frozen, fold in the diced pineapple, Sultana raisins, and whipped cream.

  2. Mold the mixture into a desired shape and return to the freezer until set.

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
Emulsify and thicken the custard, giving the frozen pudding a rich, smooth body.
Corn flour
Thickens the base and helps keep ice crystals small for a softer texture.
Double cream, whipped
Adds air and fat, lightening the texture and making the frozen mixture creamier.
Sugar
Lowers the freezing point, keeping the pudding soft enough to scoop and sweet.
Kirschwasser
Adds aroma and some alcohol, which further softens the frozen texture.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped cream after freezing. The base must be firm but not fully hard so the whipped cream folds in without deflating. Overbeating or letting it melt too far loses the airy texture, while cream added too cold may not blend evenly.

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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