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Huckleberry Pudding

A pudding made with milk, eggs, flour, yeast, butter, baking soda, salt, and huckleberries, boiled in a greased mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Huckleberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Whip the eggs, butter (warmed), and milk together.

  2. Pour the mixture gradually into a hole in the sifted flour. Mix well.

  3. Add the yeast.

Rise and fill

  1. Set to rise in a bowl for 4 to 5 hours or until light.

  2. Stir in the huckleberries. Dredge them thickly with flour.

  3. Pour into a greased mold.

Boil and serve

  1. Boil steadily for 2 hours.

  2. Turn out.

  3. Serve warm with hard sauce.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure and richness to the crumb.
Flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the pudding its body.
Yeast
Produces gas during rising, making the pudding light and airy.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, and helps form a smooth batter.
Huckleberries
Add fruit flavor, sweetness and juicy pockets throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Dredge the huckleberries thickly with flour. Flour coating keeps the heavy berries from sinking to the bottom of the batter and bleeding juice into it. Coated berries stay suspended and distributed through the pudding as it rises and cooks.

“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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