Delaware · Side
Eastern Shore Corn Pudding
- Easy
- 70 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with richness that coats and comforts, warm spice humming through the middle, melting away silken.
Ingredients
- 6 ears corn, kernels and scraped milk
- 4 eggs
- 500ml whole milk
- 120ml cream
- 55g butter, melted
- 3 tbsp flour
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Grated nutmeg
Equipment
Grater / zester
The skills inside
The wobble & the skewer: testing a bake
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy · egg
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Cut the kernels from the cobs, then scrape the cobs hard with the back of the knife to collect the starchy milk.
- Whisk the eggs with the milk, cream, melted butter, flour, sugar, salt, and pepper.
- Stir in the corn and its scrapings.
- Pour into a buttered dish and grate nutmeg over the top.
- Bake at 175C for 45-55 min until set at the edges with a slight wobble at the center. 55 min
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
The wobble & the skewer: testing a bake 135 recipes
- Tested at the true centre and the thickest point, not at the convenient edge: the edge is done long before the answer is.
- The skewer comes out as the recipe describes, clean and dry or carrying the stated moist crumb, and it does the same on a second test in a different spot.
- The wobble is read in motion: nudged, the centre moves as one set mass with a faint tremble, rather than a liquid ripple travelling across the surface.
- The other signs agree with the test: risen and just shrinking from the sides, the top set and dry to a light touch with no wet gloss on it.
- Pressed lightly at the middle it springs back and leaves no lasting dent.
Where it goes wrong It was judged on the clock and on how the edges looked, so a centre still liquid went to the rack and sank as it cooled, a dense wet seam under a perfectly browned top.
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