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Sweetmeats Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and nutmeg work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Sweetmeats Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a pie crust and roll it out into a long oval shape.

  2. Spread the crust thickly with raspberry or currant jam, or with stewed fruit.

  3. Wet the edges of the dough with cold water and roll it up, sealing the edges tightly.

  4. Steam the rolled dough for one hour or more.

  5. Serve in slices with a sauce made by beating together butter and sugar, adding nutmeg or other flavoring.

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. Raspberry + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + nutmegtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + nutmegtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together23,364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and nutmeg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 23,364 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

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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