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A Baked Apple Pudding

A baked apple pudding made with apples, milk, flour, sugar, eggs, lemon, and peach leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Eliza Leslie · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

A Baked Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Pare and core nine large pippin apples; place them in a large deep dish and pour a small amount of water around them to prevent burning. Bake in oven for about half an hour.

Make the batter

  1. While apples bake, mix three tablespoonfuls of flour with a quart of milk, a quarter pound of brown sugar, and a teaspoon of mixed spice.

  2. Beat seven eggs lightly and stir them gradually into the milk mixture.

  3. (Optional) Boil a small handful of peach leaves in milk, let cool, then stir into the eggs before adding to the batter.

Assemble and bake

  1. Remove the partially baked apples, fill the core holes with brown sugar, and press a slice of fresh lemon into each hole.

  2. Pour the batter over the apples, return the dish to the oven, and bake for another half hour, ensuring the apples remain whole.

Serve

  1. Serve warm.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

897Calories
30 gProtein
15 gFat
163 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12

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

By Eliza Leslie. 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.

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. Peach + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Lemon + peachtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Lemon + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Soften during baking and give the pudding its body, moisture and natural sweetness.
Eggs
Set as they bake, binding the milk and flour into a custard-like pudding.
Flour
Thickens the milk mixture so the batter holds together around the apples.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the batter, which the eggs and flour set into a custard.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and moisture, and deepens flavour as it warms in the apple cores.
Lemon
Adds bright aroma and acidity that cut through the sweetness of the sugar and apples.

The step that matters

Pouring the batter over the apples. Pour gently so the partly baked apples stay whole and are not displaced. Eggs and flour set the custard as it bakes, so the pudding should be firm before it is served warm.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sugar, peach, apple, flour, 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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