Name: Apple Pudding Pies
Ingredients: 5 cups stewed; 2 cups sugar; 4 cups cream; 5 eggs bealen light; three pies baked

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Apple Pudding Pies

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

Stew and strain 5 cups of sour apples.
Add 1 small teacup of butter to the hot apples.
Add 2 cups of sugar.
Add 5 eggs, beaten light.
Add 2¼ cups of cream or rich milk.

Bake

Make three pies with one crust and bake them.
Less eggs, cream and butter may be used and still be very nice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

178Calories

7 gProtein

11 gFat

14 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Pie	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 Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church. 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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Cream + eggtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together42,166 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sour apples (in the method): Provide the main body and tartness of the filling.
Eggs: Set the filling and give it a custard-like structure as they bake.
Cream: Adds richness and moisture, giving the filling a smooth, tender texture.
Butter (in the method): Adds fat for richness and a softer, smoother texture.
Sugar: Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly as it bakes.

“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.