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Chocolate Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and pineapple 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 ↓

Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a white pudding and let it cool.

  2. Flavor the pudding with vanilla.

  3. Remove two-thirds of the pudding and mix in the chocolate dissolved in a little milk.

  4. In a mold, layer half of the white pudding, then the chocolate mixture, and top with the remaining white pudding.

  5. Alternatively, use two layers of chocolate with white pudding in between.

  6. You can also add grated coconut or cooked pineapple for variation.

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. Vanilla + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together911 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Milk + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together885 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Chocolate + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the pineapple

The recipe marks pineapple as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vanilla, chocolate, milk):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Cherryfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vanilla, chocolate, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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