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Chocolate Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 651 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chocolate Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the pudding base by mixing with lemon juice or vanilla extract.

  2. Pour the pudding into molds and chill.

  3. For chocolate pudding, remove two-thirds of the base and mix in the softened chocolate and a little milk.

  4. Layer half of the white pudding in the mold, followed by the chocolate mixture, then the remaining white pudding.

  5. Alternatively, create layers of chocolate with a white layer in between.

  6. You can also add grated coconut or chopped pineapple/strawberries 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. Coconut + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together651 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Chocolate + coconuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,107 recipes

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

  3. Milk + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Lemon + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

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

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

Swap the coconut

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Orangefits about as well
  4. Blackberryfits about as well

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

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