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Cherry Pudding

A baked or boiled pudding made with flour, grated bread, suet, milk, eggs, salt, and preserved cherries or damsons.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Mary Randolph · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 6 ingredients
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Cherry Pudding

Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Cherry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Beat six eggs very light.

  2. Add half a pint of milk.

  3. Add six ounces flour.

  4. Add eight ounces grated bread.

  5. Add twelve ounces suet, chopped fine.

  6. Add a little salt.

  7. When the mixture is beaten well, mix in eighteen ounces preserved cherries or damsons.

Cook and serve

  1. Bake or boil the pudding.

  2. Make a sauce of melted butter, sugar and wine.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

682Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
108 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
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 Mary Randolph. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

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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. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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
Bind the batter and add structure as the pudding sets.
Flour
Gives the batter body and helps it hold its shape when cooked.
Grated bread
Adds bulk and soaks up milk, giving a softer, lighter crumb.
Suet
Adds fat and richness, keeping the pudding moist as it cooks.
Milk
Moistens the batter so the dry ingredients hydrate evenly.

The step that matters

Beating the mixture well before adding the cherries. Thorough beating incorporates air and fully hydrates the flour and bread, giving an even, lightly risen texture. Adding fruit to an under-mixed batter can leave dense pockets and cause the cherries to sink as the pudding sets.

“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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