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Cathy's Sweet Potato Pudding

A baked sweet potato pudding with sugar, butter, eggs, lemon rind, mace, and orange juice.

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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cathy's Sweet Potato Pudding

Oven350 degree oven
Time1 hour

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Mash the sweet potatoes.

  2. Add 1 cup of the sugar and the melted butter.

  3. Combine with beaten egg yolks, lemon rind, mace, and orange juice.

  4. Beat the whites until stiff and fold into sweet potato mixture.

Bake

  1. Pour into a well greased baking dish.

  2. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup sugar and bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

464Calories
12 gProtein
17 gFat
69 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Macenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Sweet potato + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together191 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Sweet potato + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together314 recipes

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

  4. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Sweet potato + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,151 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

Sweet potatoes
Provide the bulk and moist, starchy body of the pudding.
Egg yolks
Enrich the custard and help set the pudding as it bakes.
Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks, they lighten the mixture and help it rise.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, moist crumb.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps brown the sugared top.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and fruity flavor while moistening the mixture.

The step that matters

Fold in the whites. Beaten egg whites trap air that gives the pudding lift. Folding gently, rather than stirring, keeps that air from collapsing and the texture light.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, sugar, butter, egg, lemon, orange):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, sugar, butter, egg, lemon, orange. 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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