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Delicious Easter Pudding

A sweet pudding made with eggs, sugar, lemon, nuts, boiled potatoes, and baked in a water bath, served with wine sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Kaufman, Nettie M · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Delicious Easter Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Separate the 8 eggs into yolks and whites. Beat the yolks with 1 cup sugar.

  2. Add a handful of blanched and pounded nuts, grated lemon rind, and lemon juice.

  3. Add boiled potatoes (boiled in jackets the day before).

  4. Fold in the beaten egg whites and a pinch of salt.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a greased pudding dish.

  2. Place the dish in a pan of boiling water and bake in the oven; after about half an hour, turn out onto a platter and serve with wine sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

139Calories
7 gProtein
5 gFat
17 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Kaufman, Nettie M. 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.

  1. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  2. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Eggs
Whites trap air that gives the pudding lift, while yolks add richness and help it set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps sweeten and soften the beaten yolks.
Lemon
Juice adds acidity and the grated rind adds a bright citrus aroma.
Potatoes (in the method)
Boiled potatoes add body and moisture, giving the pudding a soft, dense texture.
Nuts (in the method)
Pounded nuts add texture and a rich, toasty flavour.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites. Whites hold air that lifts the pudding. Folding gently keeps that air in, while stirring or overmixing deflates the whites and leaves a dense result.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Datesfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg. 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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