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Frozen Pudding

A chilled dessert made with milk custard, raisins, almonds, strawberry preserves, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Make a rich custard with the quart of new milk.

Combine and freeze

  1. Prepare the raisins, almonds, and strawberry preserves.

  2. Pour the hot custard over the prepared ingredients.

  3. Once cold, put the mixture to freeze.

  4. When it thickens to the consistency of mush, add the sweetened and whipped cream.

  5. Stir frequently to ensure the fruit is well mixed.

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. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Almond + strawberrytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Milk + strawberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,130 recipes

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

  4. Milk + teatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Tea + strawberrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

New milk
Forms the custard base that carries the other ingredients through the mixture.
Rich cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture once whipped and folded in.
Blanched almonds
Contribute body and a nutty texture to the frozen mixture.
Seeded raisins
Add chewy sweetness and bulk to the pudding.
Strawberry preserves
Add fruity sweetness and flavour throughout the mixture.

The step that matters

Add the whipped cream at the right thickness. Folding cream in too early, while the mixture is still warm or liquid, causes it to deflate and thin. Waiting until it thickens to a mush keeps the cream's air intact and gives an even, light texture.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, tea, almond, strawberry, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, tea, almond, strawberry, cream. 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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