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I Baked Almond Pudding

A baked dessert made with almond paste, eggs, lemon, cream, butter, sugar, and sherry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

I Baked Almond Pudding

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 the filling

  1. Blanch and pound the sweet and bitter almonds to a smooth paste with a little water.

  2. Mix the almond paste with melted butter.

  3. Beat the eggs, grate the lemon rind, and strain the lemon juice.

  4. Add the eggs, lemon rind, lemon juice, cream, sugar, and sherry to the almond mixture and stir well.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a pie dish lined with puff pastry.

  2. Bake for 30 minutes at 350°F (175°C).

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Almond + sherrytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together517 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet almonds
Form the main body of the filling as a smooth paste that sets richly.
Eggs
Set the custard-like filling as they cook, giving it structure.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, moist texture to the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling soft after baking.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Pour the mixture into a pie dish lined with puff pastry.. The filling is loose and wet before baking, so the pastry must be fully lined and sealed at the edges to keep the liquid contained while the eggs set.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, sherry, egg, butter, cream, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, sherry, egg, butter, cream, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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