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Cabinet Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cabinet Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut sponge cake in half lengthwise, then into four pieces.

  2. Layer pieces in a pudding mold, sprinkling with ratifias, cherries, and chopped lemon and orange peel.

  3. Repeat layering until the mold is full.

  4. In a bowl, crack eggs one at a time, checking for freshness, then add to a large pan.

  5. Add powdered sugar and milk to the eggs, and beat well for 2 minutes.

  6. Strain the mixture into another pan, then add grated nutmeg and lemon zest.

  7. Select a stewpan that is 1-2 inches taller than the pudding mold and has a tight-fitting lid.

  8. Pour the custard gently into the mold one hour before serving.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Nutmeg + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  5. Milk + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, milk, nutmeg, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangethe original
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Raisinfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, milk, nutmeg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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