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To Make a Gooseberry Pudding

A baked pudding of gooseberries, clarified butter, roll crumbs, eggs, rose water, sugar, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

To Make a Gooseberry 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

  1. Pick and coddle the gooseberries until cold.

  2. Rub them through a fine sieve.

Make the filling

  1. Mix the gooseberries with the roll crumbs, clarified butter, rose water, and 5 beaten eggs.

  2. Line your dish with puff pastry.

  3. Add sugar to taste.

  4. Pour the mixture into the dish.

Bake

  1. Bake for 1 hour 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 + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  4. Rose + sugartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,584 recipes

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

  5. Butter + rosetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Green gooseberries
Provide the tart fruit base and most of the moisture in the filling.
Eggs
Set as the filling bakes, giving the pudding its structure and custardy body.
Clarified butter
Adds richness and a tender, smooth texture to the pudding.
French roll crumbs
Absorb liquid and help bind the filling so it holds together when baked.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart gooseberries and balances their acidity.

The step that matters

Bake for 1 hour at 350°F (175°C). The beaten eggs must set gently into a custard. Overbaking at this heat can make the eggs tighten and curdle, leaving the pudding grainy and watery.

“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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