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Baked Gooseberry Pudding

A baked pudding made from gooseberry pulp, eggs, butter, bread crumbs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gooseberries

  1. Cut off the tops and tails of the gooseberries and place them in a jar.

  2. Put the jar in boiling water and boil until the gooseberries are soft enough to pulp.

  3. Beat the gooseberries through a coarse sieve to make pulp.

Make the pudding

  1. In a bowl, combine 1 pint of gooseberry pulp, 3 well-whisked eggs, 1½ oz. of butter, ½ pint of bread crumbs, and sugar to taste.

  2. Beat the mixture well and pour it into a pie dish lined with puff pastry.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for about 40 minutes, then sprinkle sifted sugar on top and serve.

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and, once pulped, the body of the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the pulp and bread crumbs and set the pudding as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft, tender texture to the filling.
Bread crumbs
Thicken the pulp and give the filling a soft, absorbent body.

The step that matters

Beat the gooseberries through a coarse sieve. Gooseberry skins and seeds stay behind in the sieve, so pressing the cooked fruit fully through gives a smooth pulp. Leftover skin or seeds would make the filling gritty.

“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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