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Plain Sauce for Field Pudding

A simple sweet and slightly spicy sauce for field pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and condensed milk work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 804 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Plain Sauce for Field Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine 1 quart of sugar with enough hot water to dissolve it.

  2. Boil the mixture, adding a little spice, for 10 minutes.

  3. Gradually thicken the sauce with flour while stirring continuously.

  4. Add vinegar to taste and adjust with more spice or sugar if needed.

  5. Continue boiling until the sauce thickens, then serve separately from the pudding.

  6. If desired, use condensed milk for added richness.

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. Sugar + condensed milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

  4. Flour + condensed milktop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together410 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Flour + vinegartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,652 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Provides sweetness and body as the main component of the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the sauce as it heats and stirs, giving it a smooth consistency.
Condensed milk
Adds richness and creaminess to the sauce when used.

The step that matters

Gradually thicken the sauce with flour while stirring continuously. Adding flour all at once forms lumps because starch grains clump before they can hydrate. Adding it gradually while stirring keeps the starch dispersed so the sauce thickens smoothly.

“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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