Name: Potato Pudding
Ingredients: one pound sugar; one pound potatoes boiled; a pound of butter creamed; a small cup of cream; ten eggs; orange peel; mace

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 ↓

Potato Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Take ten eggs, one pound sugar, three-quarters of a pound of butter creamed, one pound potatoes boiled and
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run through a cullender while hot, a small cup of cream. Part of the sugar to be added to the butter and the rest to the eggs, which add to the potatoes. Flavor with orange peel or mace; a small portion of French brandy is an improvement.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

503Calories

12 gProtein

23 gFat

66 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Mace	not in our table	0

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

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". 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. See the original page.

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.

Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together537 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,456 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

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Parsleyfits better
Macethe original

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