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Ohooolate Cream Pudding

A frozen chocolate dessert made with melted chocolate, milk, sugar, whipped cream, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Ohooolate Cream Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chocolate base

  1. Melt the chocolate in 1 pint of milk.

  2. Add sugar to taste.

Prepare the cream

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the heavy cream until soft peaks form and sweeten it.

  2. Combine half of the whipped cream with the melted chocolate mixture.

  3. Leave the other half of the whipped cream plain and flavor it as desired.

Freeze

  1. Pack the mixture in ice and salt and freeze for 4 hours.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  2. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chocolate
Provides the main chocolate flavor and deep color of the pudding.
Heavy cream
Whipped to soft peaks, it adds richness and a light, airy texture.
Milk
Melts the chocolate and forms the liquid body of the chocolate base.
Sugar
Sweetens the chocolate base and the whipped cream.

The step that matters

Whipping the heavy cream to soft peaks. Cream that is overwhipped turns grainy and can separate, while underwhipped cream stays runny and will not give the pudding its light body. Stop at soft peaks, where the cream holds its shape but still flows slightly.

“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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