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Iced-pudding Mould

A frozen dessert of apples, apricot jam, raisins, and liqueurs, folded with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Iced-pudding Mould

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the base

  1. Simmer the apples in a pot until soft.

  2. Mix in the apricot jam and sugar, rubbing the orange rind into the sugar first.

  3. Work the mixture through a sieve into a freezing pot.

  4. Simmer the raisins in a little syrup for a few minutes, then add to the freezing pot.

  5. Stir in the sliced citron, diced almonds, and drained cherries.

  6. Add the Curaçao and Maraschino, then freeze the mixture.

Finish and freeze

  1. Fold in the whipped cream and freeze again.

  2. Fill a mould with the mixture, cover it, and plunge it into a pot of ice.

  3. Cover with a wet cloth and pounded ice and saltpetre until ready to serve.

Serve

  1. Turn the pudding out onto a clean, folded napkin and serve with iced whipped cream.

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. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Apricot + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Cooked to a soft pulp, they form the body and bulk of the pudding.
Whipped cream
Adds air and fat, giving the frozen pudding a light, creamy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and lowers its freezing point so it stays soft and scoopable.
Apricot jam
Adds fruit sweetness and flavour, and pectin that helps the mixture set smoothly.
Raisins
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness that contrasts with the smooth base.
Curaçao
Adds orange aroma and alcohol, which keeps the frozen mixture softer.

The step that matters

Freezing the mixture with ice and saltpetre. Saltpetre lowers the temperature of the ice bath below freezing, so the pudding can set. Keeping the mould packed in cold ice until serving maintains firmness.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, sugar, orange, raisin, syrup, almond, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, sugar, orange, raisin, syrup, almond, cream. 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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