Skip to main content
Dessert

Pudding From Cooked Wheat Meal

A baked pudding made with milk, eggs, sugar, and cooked wheat meal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Pudding From Cooked Wheat Meal

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a pot, combine the milk and cooked wheat meal.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil.

Make the custard

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs and sugar together.

  2. Add the egg mixture to the boiling milk and meal, stirring well.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake for 30 minutes.

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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Milk + coffeetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

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

  3. Coffee + wheattop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Sugar + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the pudding as they cook, giving it a custard-like structure.
Milk
Provides the liquid base that cooks into the body of the pudding.
Cooked wheat meal
Thickens the milk and gives the pudding its body and grain flavor.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the egg mixture blend smoothly.

The step that matters

Adding the egg mixture to the boiling milk. Pouring the eggs into very hot liquid without constant stirring can scramble them. Stirring well keeps the egg proteins dispersed so the pudding sets smooth.

“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.

You might also like

Coffee Ice CreamCoffee Ice Cream91 recipesWheat MuffinsWheat Muffins48 recipesCoffee CustardCoffee Custard27 recipesCoffee CakeCoffee Cake21 recipes