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Huckleberey Pudding

A steamed pudding made from a brick loaf, huckleberries, eggs, flour, and sweetened with syrup or molasses.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Huckleberey Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Wet the brick loaf with boiling milk.

  2. In a bowl, combine the loaf, eggs, salt, and huckleberries.

  3. Boil for 1.5 hours.

  4. In another bowl, mix 1.5 pints of flour with a little of the fresh berries.

  5. Add salt, baking soda dissolved in sweet milk, and syrup or molasses to the remaining flour.

  6. Stir until smooth, then gently fold in the berries.

Steam and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered mold.

  2. Place the mold in boiling water, ensuring the water does not reach the top.

  3. Boil continuously for at least 2 hours.

  4. Serve with boiled sauce.

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.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,540 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Brick loaf
Provides the bulk and structure that holds the pudding together.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set as it cooks.
Huckleberries
Add moisture, flavor, and color throughout the pudding.
Flour
Forms the body of the batter and gives the pudding its structure.
Baking soda
Reacts with the molasses and milk to lighten the pudding as it steams.
Syrup or molasses
Adds sweetness and depth of flavor, and darkens the pudding.

The step that matters

Keep the water below the mold's top while steaming. If the water rises over the mold, it can seep into the pudding and make it soggy. Boiling must also stay continuous so the pudding cooks evenly through its full depth.

“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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